Pissarro Exhibition
a First for Australia
Friday November 18, 2005
From November 19 until February 19, the Art Gallery of New South Wales presents the first comprehensive Camille Pissarro exhibition in Australia. It is the largest exhibition by a major Impressionist artist ever to be held in Australia, with more than 100 works drawn from collections worldwide and includes some of the painter's most famous images. (Picture: Camille Pissarro: Peasants' Houses, Eragny 1887, Art Gallery of New South Wales)
The Pissarro exhibition opens first in Sydney and then tours in March to the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) was the only painter of the Impressionist group who participated in all eight of the historic Impressionist exhibitions held in Paris between 1874 and 1886.
It was Pissarro who drafted the Impressionist convention and was the principal organiser of the first exhibition held in the photographer Nadar's studio in April 1874. Consequently, Pissarro was regarded as a central figure of the group — "nothing new and excellent appeared where he wasn't among the first, if not absolutely the first, to discern and defend," opined the Parisian critic, writer and editor of La Revue Blanche, Thadée Natanson (1868-1951).
Cézanne and Gauguin both acknowledged their profound debt to Pissarro's innovative methods, having come under his tutelage during their formative years. Seurat, Signac and Matisse also benefited from Pissarro's generous encouragement and advice at the start of their careers.
Australian debut for 'first Impressionist' — ABC News Online
The Pissarro exhibition opens first in Sydney and then tours in March to the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) was the only painter of the Impressionist group who participated in all eight of the historic Impressionist exhibitions held in Paris between 1874 and 1886.
It was Pissarro who drafted the Impressionist convention and was the principal organiser of the first exhibition held in the photographer Nadar's studio in April 1874. Consequently, Pissarro was regarded as a central figure of the group — "nothing new and excellent appeared where he wasn't among the first, if not absolutely the first, to discern and defend," opined the Parisian critic, writer and editor of La Revue Blanche, Thadée Natanson (1868-1951).
Cézanne and Gauguin both acknowledged their profound debt to Pissarro's innovative methods, having come under his tutelage during their formative years. Seurat, Signac and Matisse also benefited from Pissarro's generous encouragement and advice at the start of their careers.
Australian debut for 'first Impressionist' — ABC News Online
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