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He also happened to be Jewish. Dubbed “the father of impressionism,” Camille Pissarro, seen here in a self-portrait, was born in 1830 in the Caribbean, on the island of St. Thomas. Photo by ...
Among the big thinkers, the most invisible of the Impressionists is the father figure of the group, Camille Pissarro. An artist of impeccable character, he connected the group’s feuding factions ...
If you're only familiar with Camille Pissarro, the Impressionist Landscape painter, "Pissarro's People" will come as a revelation. Curated by Pissarro scholar Richard Brettell, this thought ...
Henri Matisse once asked Camille Pissarro to define Impressionism. “An Impressionist,” the older painter replied, “is the artist who paints a different picture every time, a painter who ...
When Camille Pissarro’s “Rue Saint-Honoré,” a painting stolen by the Nazis from Lilly Cassirer, was discovered by her grandson Claude in 2000 in Madrid’s state-owned Thyssen-Bornemisza ...
The justices overturned a lower-court ruling awarding Camille Pissarro’s “Rue St. Honoré, dans l’après-midi. Effet de pluie” to a Madrid museum that has long argued it can lay claim ...
IN the 1880’s when rotund Camille Pissarro walked into Paris’ Cafe de la Nouvelle Athenes with his great prophet’s beard streaming and his portfolio tucked under his arms, fellow artists ...
Effect of Rain,” by Camille Pissarro — will remain in the possession of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, a museum owned by the Spanish government, rather than be returned to the descendants ...
A writer used Camille Pissarro’s paintings of suburban London and a ‘lost’ railway as a lens for exploring the city’s history — and settling an arcane mystery. The Crystal Palace railway ...