Camille Pissarro - The Studio of Modernism

This new consideration of Pissarro’s work focuses on his strengths as a unifier and champion of other painters, as well as his innovative approch to the impressionist movement and beyond. By Christophe Duvivier (Director of the Museums of Pontoise, France) and Josef Helfenstein (Director at the Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland)

As one of the founding figures of Impressionism, Camille Pissarro exerted considerable influence over the movement’s other members, such as Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, Edgar Degas, and Mary Cassatt. This publication focuses on Pissarro’s collaborations with these and other artists. It also celebrates the avant-garde quality of his painting, particularly in his contributions to Neo-Impressionism. Focusing on his role in the revolutionary Impressionist movement of the 1870s, the book traces Pissarro’s work in dialog with his fellow artists, particularly Cezanne and Gauguin, and also reveals his influence on works by Alfred Sisley, Georges Seurat and Paul Signac and others. In addition to pages of exquisite reproductions of works by Pissarro and his contemporaries, this volume features illuminating essays on fascinating aspects of the life and work of this prolific artist. Readers will come away with a new understanding of how Pissarro’s unique talent for collaboration and unity was vital to the development of French painting in the late 19th century.

With contributions by Timothy J. Clark, André Dombrowski, Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Alma Egger, Sophie Eichner, Colin Harrison, Jelle Imkampe, David Misteli, Olga Osadtschy, Joachim Pissarro, Esther Rapoport, Valérie Sueur, Kerstin Thomas, Christophe Duvivier, Josef Helfenstein

Hardcover, half-linen, approx. 336 pages, 25,0 x 30,0 cm, 150 color illustrations

ISBN: 978-3-7913-7827-5

Edited by Timothy J. Clark, André Dombrowski, Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Alma Egger, Sophie Eichner, Colin Harrison, Jelle Imkampe, David Misteli, Olga Osadtschy, Joachim Pissarro, Esther Rapoport, Valérie Sueur, Kerstin Thomas, Christophe Duvivier, Josef Helfenstein