Pissarro: Creating the Impressionist Landscape

by Katherine Rothkopf

This lavishly illustrated book illuminates Camille Pissarro's remarkable transformation from a Barbizon-style landscape painter to one of the leaders of the emerging Impressionist movement. This is the first book to examine the revolutionary landscape paintings Pissarro created between 1864 and 1874. During this pivotal decade in the artist's career, Pissarro produced his most beautiful and innovative canvases and his experimental techniques and vision laid the groundwork for an entire generation of painters. The catalogue brings together approximately fifty of these exquisite paintings, from key works included in the Salon exhibitions of the 1860s to a powerful selection of landscapes seen in the first Impressionist show of 1874. Many of these paintings are drawn from major museums around the world and rarely shown private collections.

216 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Carol · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pissarro is the only artist to exhibit in ALL EIGHT of the Impressionist exhibits. Cezanne is quoted as saying, "we learned everything we do from Pissarro. He had the good luck to be born in the Antilles where he taught himself to paint without a teacher. So he told me. As early as '65 he eliminated black, and bitumen. sienna and the ochres; it's a fact. He told me never to paint with anything other than the three primary colours and their immediate derivatives. It's he who is really the first Impressionist." Beautiful photos of his exceptional artwork.