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Camille Pissarro

Danish-French painter (1830-1903) · France · Artists · Died at 73

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He showed at all eight Impressionist exhibitions - the only painter who did - and taught Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, and van Gogh. Not the flashiest name in the movement, but the one who held it together.

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1903Died13 November 19031883“I am hard at work, at least I work as much as the weather permits. - I began a work the motif of which is the river bank in the direction of St. Paul's Church.”In their words11 October 1883Rouen 11 October 1883, to his son Lucien; from Camille Pissarro - Letters to His Son Lucien ed. John Rewald, with assistance of Lucien

“The day after your departure I started a new painting at Le Cours-la-Reine, in the afternoon in a glow of sun, and another in the morning by the water below St. Paul's Church.”In their words11 October 1883letter from Rouen 11 October 1883, to his son Lucien; from Camille Pissarro - Letters to His Son Lucien ed. John Rewald, with assistance of

“The next day he [uncle Alfred] took me to hear the 'Concert Colonne' at the Chatelet. First we lunched and then went to the hall. There was a fine program!”In their words2 April 1883Paris, 2 April 1883, in a letter to his son Lucien; from Camille Pissarro - Letters to His Son Lucien ed. John Rewald, with assistance of

“I have just concluded my series of paintings, I look at them constantly. I who made them often find them horrible.”In their words20 November 1883letter, 20 Nov. 1883; as quoted in Painting Outside the lines, Patterns of Creativity in Modern Art, ed. David W. Galenson, Harvard

1878“What I have suffered you cannot imagine. But what I'm going through [circa 1878] now is even worse, much more so than when I was young..”In their wordsPissarro, His Life and Work, Shikes and Harper, Horizon Press, 1980, p. 142

1856“I am settled in France, and as for the rest of my history as a painter, it is bound up with the impressionistic group.”In their wordshis remark, circa 1856; as quoted in Brush and Pencil, Vol. XIII, no. 6 , article: 'Camille Pissarro' Impressionist'; by Henry G Stephens,

1830Born10 July 1830

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  1. I am hard at work, at least I work as much as the weather permits. - I began a work the motif of which is the river bank in the direction of St. Paul's Church.

    Oct 11, 1883, Rouen 11 October 1883, to his son Lucien; from Camille Pissarro - Letters to His Son Lucien ed. John Rewald, with assistance of Lucien, Own words

  2. The day after your departure I started a new painting at Le Cours-la-Reine, in the afternoon in a glow of sun, and another in the morning by the water below St. Paul's Church.

    Oct 11, 1883, letter from Rouen 11 October 1883, to his son Lucien; from Camille Pissarro - Letters to His Son Lucien ed. John Rewald, with assistance of, Own words

  3. The ones [compliments] I value most came from Edgar Degas who said he was happy to see my work becoming more and more pure.

    May 4, 1883, Paris, 4 May 1883, in a letter to his son Lucien; from Camille Pissarro - Letters to His Son Lucien ed. John Rewald, with assistance of, Own words

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Born on Saint Thomas in the Danish West Indies in 1830, Pissarro studied under Courbet and Corot before helping establish a collective of fifteen aspiring artists in 1873 - the core of what became Impressionism. He painted the common man in natural settings, no artifice, a choice Renoir called revolutionary. At 54 he pivoted again, working alongside Seurat and Signac in the Neo-Impressionist style. Cézanne said he was "a father for me, a man to consult and a little like the good Lord"; Pissarro mentored him, Gauguin, Seurat, and van Gogh - the four pillars of Post-Impressionism. He died in Paris in 1903, the dean of a movement he never abandoned.

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Lived 1830 to 1903 · aged 73

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