“Monet worked in the parks, whilst I, living at Lower Norwood, at that time a charming suburb, studied the effects of fog, snow and springtime.” Pissarro lived near the Crystal ...

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 ...

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 ...

In his book Cézanne/Pissarro, Johns/Rauschenberg. Comparative Studies on Intersubjectivity in Modern Art (2006) the art historian Joachim Pissarro argues that this is a mistake. Drawing on his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...