Camille Pissarro, 1830 - 1903
LE BOULEVARD MONTMARTRE, FIN DE JOURNÉE/ END OF THE DAY, c. 1897
Oil on canvas
54 by 65cm., 21 1/4 by 25 5/8 in.
Private collection
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Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 – 13
November 1903) was a
Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of
St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies).
His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and
Post-Impressionism. Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave
Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. He later studied and worked alongside
Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at
the age of 54.
In 1873 he helped establish a collective society
of fifteen aspiring artists, becoming the "pivotal" figure in holding
the group together and encouraging the other members. Art historian John Rewald
called Pissarro the "dean of the Impressionist painters", not only
because he was the oldest of the group, but also "by virtue of his wisdom
and his balanced, kind, and warmhearted personality". More
Camille Pissarro
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