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Camille Pissarro
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Schwarz King of Pontus
Painting ID:: 57746
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Camille Pissarro
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Caribbean-born French Pointillist/Impressionist Painter, ca.1830-1903
.Painter and printmaker. He was the only painter to exhibit in all eight of the Impressionist exhibitions held between 1874 and 1886, and he is often regarded as the 'father' of the movement. He was by no means narrow in outlook, however, and throughout his life remained as radical in artistic matters as he was in politics. Thad?e Natanson wrote in 1948: 'Nothing of novelty or of excellence appeared that Pissarro had not been among the first, if not the very first, to discern and to defend.' The significance of Pissarro's work is in the balance maintained between tradition and the avant-garde. Octave Mirbeau commented: 'M. Camille Pissarro has shown himself to be a revolutionary by renewing the art of painting in a purely working sense; |
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Schwarz King of Pontus |
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mk259 1872 Oil on canvas years 53 x 83 cm |
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Related Paintings::.
| A Lady and Two Gentlemen (detail) qr | Portrait of a Man | Chancellor Seguier at the Entry of Louis XIV into Paris in 1660 (mk08) | |
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