Pissarro: Creating the Impressionist Landscape

"Pissarro: Creating the Impressionist Landscape explores Camille Pissarro's transformation from a Barbizon-style painter to one of the leaders of the emerging Impressionist movement. This publication is the first to focus on the revolutionary landscape paintings he created between 1864 and 1874. During this pivotal decade in his career, Pissarro produced some of 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 forty-nine of these exquisite works, from key paintings 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." "Essays on the development of Pissarro's painting style from 1864 to 1974, and on the influence of place in his work, acknowledge his formative years in St. Thomas and Venezuela as well as his fascination with the countryside surrounding Paris. Technical studies of several of the artist's paintings from the 1860s reveal new insights into the artist's creative process."--Book jacket.