Camille Pissarro valuation
The only painter in all eight Impressionist exhibitions, and the teacher the others went to.
Camille Pissarro was born on St Thomas in the Danish West Indies in 1830 and settled in France in 1855.
What a work by Camille Pissarro is worth
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Bio
Camille Pissarro was born on St Thomas in the Danish West Indies in 1830 and settled in France in 1855. He was the one constant of Impressionism, the only artist to exhibit in all eight of the group's shows, and the figure Cezanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh each described as a teacher. He painted the countryside at Pontoise and Eragny, the peasants working in it, and, in the 1890s, series of Paris and Rouen boulevards seen from hotel windows. He worked through a Neo-Impressionist period with Seurat and Signac before returning to a looser touch. He died in 1903.
A long and productive career, and a large family of painters after him — his sons Lucien, Georges, Felix, Ludovic-Rodo and Paul-Emile all painted, as did later descendants — which is a practical matter, since works by his children are regularly offered under the father's name and the signatures are similar. The catalogue raisonne is the reference. Provenance across 1933 to 1945 is examined as standard for this generation and there have been prominent restitution cases. Gouaches, watercolours, drawings and a substantial etching output all trade.
At a glance
- Born
- 10 July 1830, Charlotte Amalie
- Died
- 13 November 1903, Paris
- Movements
- Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism
More on Wikipedia.
The catalogues, and the Ashmolean archive
The paintings are catalogued in Pissarro: Critical Catalogue of Paintings, three volumes by Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts published with the Wildenstein Institute in 2005, which records 1,528 paintings. His etchings and lithographs are catalogued by Loÿs Delteil, whose volume of 1923 remains the reference, and Delteil numbers identify them.
The Pissarro family archive, the largest devoted to any Impressionist, was bequeathed to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford in 1950 by the widow and daughter of his son Lucien, and the Ashmolean's exhibition Pissarro: Father of Impressionism in 2022 drew on it. For the work of his children and grandchildren, so often confused with his, it is a useful point of reference.
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