Page 81 - B-ALL#38 ENGLISH

At the age of twenty-five, he settled permanently in Paris and made friends with the greatest artists of his time.
He will never return to the Americas.The only painter to participate in all the Impressionist exhibitions from 1874 to 1886, he questio- ned the principles of academic painting. Pissarro is as interested in nature, in its landscapes as in human figures, and enjoys painting the people of the countryside, the world of peasants and their labors. He likes the canvases of Millet, Courbet and Corot. He married a daughter of a winegrower from Burgundy who was a servant for his family and they would cut off their support following this union, which was considered a misalliance.
Pissarro likes to paint outdoors and he will do it alongside Cézanne. Gauguin will buy him paintings and will also join him in Pontoise. Claude Monet, with whom he will be in exile in London during the war with Prussia, will be the godfather of his son and it is he who will lend him the money to buy his last home «La Pommeraie».His atypical career populated by wonderful encounters made Pissarro marginal even if, for a long time, his artistic choices made him more popular than Degas or Renoir.
Woman with green headscarf
Camille Pissarro 1893
Oil on canvas 65,5 x 54,5 cm
Paris, musée d’Orsay, Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (muséed’Orsay) - © Franck Raux