Danish-French painter (1830-1903)
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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.
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 Par…
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I have just concluded my series of paintings, I look at them constantly. I who made them often find them horrible.
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.
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.
The ones [compliments] I value most came from Edgar Degas who said he was happy to see my work becoming more and more pure.
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!
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