Exhibit features 19th century art movement Jul 16, 2008
The crowd oohed and ahhed as the black cloths were pulled off to reveal the pieces, which included Paul Signac s Les Andelys, l le Lucas and Camille Pissarro s Le Quai du Pothuis, Pontoise, both part of the Impressionist exhibit, and Thomas Cole s View of Boston. View of Boston was only on display for the evening. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Weeklong exhibit features 19th century art movement Jul 15, 2008
The crowd oohed and ahhed as the black cloths were pulled off to reveal the pieces, which included Paul Signac s Les Andelys, l le Lucas and Camille Pissarro s Le Quai du Pothuis, Pontoise, both part of the Impressionist exhibit, and Thomas Cole s View of Boston ... The two pieces, one by Paul Signac and the other by Camille Pissarro, are part of a weeklong impressionism exhibit and also includes pieces by Renoir and Monet. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Rarely-seen Monet goes on display Jun 21, 2008
Other major impressionist and modern works at the sale are by Henri Matisse, Pierre Bonnard, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky and Camille Pissarro. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Monet, Picasso to Anchor $1.2 Billion London Sales; Russian Buyers Courted Jun 19, 2008
The group, which has been guaranteed a minimum price, includes Monet's ``Le Bassin aux Nympheas'' and works by Henri Matisse, Picasso, Camille Pissarro and estimated at between 2 million pounds and 4 million pounds. The 6-foot, 7-inch wide Monet, one of a group of four large- scale signed water lily paintings the artist sold in 1919, has not appeared at auction since 1971. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
* [ART JOURNAL] Get a closer look at Pissarro Jun 11, 2008
The National Palace Museum has given its new exhibit of paintings by French Impressionist Camille Pissarro, his contemporaries and children, plenty of space, allowing each individual work to be appreciated in an intimate atmosphere ... View From My Window, Eragny-sur-Epte by Camille Pissarro, above, and Landscape With Trees by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, below, are on display at the National Palace Museum ... The Impressionists are celebrating in Taiwan at the moment: the French Impressionists that... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
* Taiwan News Quick Take Jun 1, 2008
The National Palace Museum will start its summer season by launching an exhibition focusing on works by renowned 19th century French impressionist Camille Pissarro ... said the exhibition, called Camille Pissarro: Family and Friends, is showing 90 works by 24 19th century artists and will run through Aug. 17. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
The Impressionists: A Preview May 29, 2008
Woman and Child at the Well (1882) by Camille Pissarro (1836-1903); and. (1884/90) by Edgar Degas (1834-1917). (Suite101.com)
Forty artists to explore 'Life on Mars' in International Feb 22, 2008
" Andrew Carnegie's intent was to bring the best current art to Pittsburgh as well as to attract the broader art world to the city. He also quickly recognized that by exhibiting the "Old Masters of tomorrow," his institution would have the opportunity to build its collection by purchasing work from the show. While not all artist's reputations stand the test of time, there have been notables among those whose works were acquired for the Carnegie collection through the Internationals, including... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
The art of restitution Feb 16, 2008
In 2000, the museum announced that it had transferred Boulevard Montmartre: Spring (1897), a painting by Camille Pissarro, to the daughter-in-law of Max Silberberg, a Jewish industrialist and collector from Breslau, Germany. According to the museum, representatives of the Silberberg estate learned of the circumstances of the disposition of works in Silberberg's collection, including Boulevard Montmartre, on the basis of information obtained from archives in the former East Germany made available... (Jerusalem Post, Israel)
Sotheby's Sells Record $230 Million Worth of Art as Russians Boost Demand Feb 6, 2008
2 million pounds and a Camille Pissarro for 2. 4 million pounds. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Monet, Turner a money churner Feb 1, 2008
On show will be works from some of the best-known and popular artists, including J.M.W.Turner, John Constable, Gustave Courbet, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cezanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Claude Monet. Australian artists will include Eugene Von Guerard, John Glover, Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Philip Conisbee, 62; former curator at LACMA, National Gallery Jan 22, 2008
zanne's mentor, Camille Pissarro, helped C. zanne move away from less interesting still-life paintings and adopt the vivid brush style of Impressionism. (Los Angeles Times)
Liverpool to launch EU culture capital celebrations Jan 11, 2008
Liverpool, the waterfront of which is a UNESCO world heritage site, has the biggest number of museums in Britain outside London, and visitors can take in shows featuring artists such as Gustav Klimt, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro and architect Le Corbusier. Thanks to the culture capital link, a series of internationally-known events are also taking place in Liverpool in 2008 including the MTV Europe music awards, the Turner Prize for modern art and the BBC Electric Proms music festival. (Yahoo News -- Politics)
L.A. museum given Picasso, Matisse works Dec 14, 2007
The gift from Janice and Henri Lazarof includes 20 works by Picasso; two versions of Constantin Brancusi's signature bronze, "Bird in Space;" seven figurative sculptures and a painting by Alberto Giacometti; two dozen works by Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Lyonel Feininger and Impressionist pieces by Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro. "It's a major deal to get this work in one fell swoop, at a time when the art market has made it nearly impossible for museums to purchase work of this quality,"... (MSNBC -- News)
LACMA gets huge gift Dec 12, 2007
" About 80 works from the collection will go on view Jan. 13, a month before the museum unveils the first phase of an ambitious expansion and renovation program that includes a new contemporary art building financed by Los Angeles collector-philanthropist Eli Broad. The Lazarof donation will debut in three galleries on the plaza level of the Ahmanson Building, in a new 22,000-square-foot showcase for modern art. Although Henri Lazarof is a veteran composer and his wife, a daughter of the late... (Los Angeles Times)
* New insights into artists' failing vision Dec 6, 2007
Camille Pissarro had a malfunctioning tear duct. Seizures and other nervous disorders tortured and ultimately destroyed Vincent van Gogh. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
More of this story Nov 22, 2007
Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro and a host of other impressionists advocated painting outdoors, and last weekend, more than 30 artists took that lesson to heart. Some struggled with the cold, but come Saturday evening, the Historical Courthouse was full of several impressions of Bartow from the expected courthouse and parks, to the more hidden, natural settings. (Bartow Polk County Democrat, FL)
Matisse Sets Record as Christie's Auction Totals $395 Million Nov 7, 2007
Records tumbled for other European painters, including Paul Cezanne, Camille Pissarro and Paul Signac. Americans dominated the buying, taking home half of the lots, with Europeans buying a quarter and the rest going to other bidders, according to Christie's. (Bloomberg)
Nazi Art Dealer's Will Disperses Collection of Old Masters, Expressionists Jul 12, 2007
Lohse died on March 19, aged 95, and has since become the focus of a three-nation investigation into a looted Camille Pissarro painting discovered in a Swiss bank safe that was seized by Zurich prosecutors on May 15. The painting's prewar owners said the Gestapo stole it from their Vienna apartment in 1938. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Meet Monet at Family Art Days Jun 13, 2007
The exhibit, "Paths to Impressionism," includes paintings by Camille Pissarro, Childe Hassam, John Singer Sargent and, of course, Claude Monet, Wilson said. Monet played an especially important role in the Impressionist movement with his freedom of form and visually appealing and compelling art, said Heather Jensen, an art history professor. (The Daily Universe, UT)
Salon des Acceptances May 11, 2007
Among those rejected artists were Edouard Manet, James Whistler, Paul Cezanne and Camille Pissarro. This year's Ellarslie Open received 466 entries, 64 percent more than last year's, and had to be whittled down to 112. (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
The Art Capades Feb 21, 2007
I was swept up, too, by the sensory overload of Camille Pissarro s chilly gray Boulevard Montmarte on a Winter Morning, and the refreshing verdant-green depths of Monet s Bridge Over a Pond of Water Lilies, painted in 1899 in the artist s Giverny garden. But I was also enchanted by the demure white gillyflowers and ripe pears in Henri Fantin-Latour s Still Life with Flowers and Fruit. (San Antonio Current, TX)
Angry young man Feb 12, 2007
As early as 1882, when he was already starting to sell at good prices, Renoir refused to exhibit with the radical impressionists led by the anarchist Camille Pissarro. By 1897, his paintings were being purchased by the French state. (Guardian Unlimited)
Monet's Love Affair with Japanese Art Jan 9, 2007
Japonisme, a fascination with all things Japanese, was soon the rage among French intellectuals and artists, among them Vincent van Gogh, Edouard Manet, Camille Pissarro and the young Monet. Perhaps for that reason Impressionism caught on early in Japan and remains ferociously popular there. (Time.com)
The art of the deals Dec 30, 2006
The exhibit, ''The Romance of Modernism: Paintings and Sculpture from the Scott M. Black Collection,'' includes works by Monet, Edgar Degas, Eugene Boudin, Camille Pissarro. Paul Signac, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Paul C. (Cape Cod Times, MA)
A public show of a private collection proves a mixed blessing at the MFA Dec 29, 2006
Fortunately, there are a fair number of keepers in the show, including a soberly realistic 1869 portrait of a woman in a lacy black dress by Renoir, a thinly painted view of reflective water and rural scenery by Monet that shows how intensely responsive to visual reality the great Impressionist could be at his best, and a verdant landscape painted in 1874 by Cezanne when he was spending a lot of time in the company of Camille Pissarro. Edgar Degas's murky double portrait "Pagans and Degas's... (Boston Globe)
Van Gogh exhibit focuses on wheat, harvest themes Oct 22, 2006
Those artists include Van Gogh's friends and others who influenced him, including Paul Gauguin, Jean-Francois Millet, Camille Pissarro and Claude Monet. "It's really kind of a window on his world," said exhibit curator Dorothy Kosinski. (KRIS-TV)
Charpentier sharpens ordinary-life objects (Deborah K. Dietsch) Aug 5, 2006
A friend of the era's leading sculptor, Auguste Rodin, Charpentier effectively used his own brand of expressive realism to portray the celebrities of his day, including novelist Emile Zola, painter Camille Pissarro and dictionary publisher Pierre Larousse. The artist sometimes modeled his subjects quickly in wet clay, and many of his reliefs reflect the quick, unstudied quality of a sketch. (Washington Times)
Leaders & Success Jul 15, 2006
Debussy loved to study the works of and spend time with top literary and visual artists, including the Symbolist poet Stephane Mallarme, as well as Impressionist painters Edouard Manet, Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. He enjoyed Japanese woodblock prints too. (Investors Business Daily)
A heady exuberance for works with instant impact Jun 24, 2006
When an admirable summertime landscape done by Camille Pissarro in 1893 followed a little later, feverish competition sent the masterpiece flying to 2. 41 million, far above the estimate. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Schiele, Picasso Star in Christie's $160 Million London Sale Jun 23, 2006
Impressionist pictures by Edouard Manet, Camille Pissarro and Claude Monet were among Christie's best performers. Dealers said newly rich buyers in Russia and Asia are customers for many second-tier pictures. (Bloomberg)
Art: A record total for London auction Jun 21, 2006
The first significant Impressionist picture to appear was "Les Peupliers, Matin, ?ragny," painted in 1893 by Camille Pissarro in the new style influenced by his Pointilliste phase in the late 1880s. Juxtaposed touches of color applied with the tip of the brush give the paint surface a vibrant glitter. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Van Gogh's `L'Arlesienne' Sells for $40.3 Million (Update1) May 3, 2006
Run-of-the-mill paintings by Monet, Renoir and Camille Pissarro bogged down the pace. Dealers expect more of the same tomorrow night, when Sotheby's Holdings Inc. sells Impressionist and Modern wares. (Bloomberg)
The true colors of conflict Apr 17, 2006
King not only offers insightful biographies of his two primary characters, he also creates memorable profiles of Manet's fellow rebel painters -- Eugene Delacroix, Gustave Courbet, James Whistler, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet and Berthe Morisot (the last being the best-known among the few female painters of the time) -- as well as such literary radicals as poet Charles Baudelaire, writer Emile Zola and influential critic Theophile Gautier. King's succinct... (Orlando Sentinel)
Czanne's fury: Expressionism to near abstraction Mar 4, 2006
zanne discovered it on arriving in Paris in 1872, and it is possible that his friend Camille Pissarro, a founding member of Impressionism, influenced him. While C. (International Herald Tribune)
Czanne, reclusive 19th century genius, gets recognition he craved a century on Feb 15, 2006
Or that one of his best friends, a man he used to go on painting trips with, was Camille Pissarro. He was, though, beleaguered by self-doubt. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
On the trail of Cézanne: Modern art in the south of France Jan 14, 2006
(There is also, from next month at the Mus;e d'Orsay in Paris, an exhibition tracing C;zanne's relationship with the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro in the 1870s. . (The Independent, UK)
Fun for the masses something to Crowe about Jan 7, 2006
Perusing the work of the impressionist Camille Pissarro at the Art Gallery of NSW this month will set you back $15, or 1. 4 per cent of the average weekly earnings of adults working full-time. (Sydney Morning Herald)
