From the acclaimed biographer and author of Balzac\'s Omelette , an engaging new work on the life of the father of Impressionism and the role his Jewish background played in his artistic creativity.
Drawing on Pissarro\'s considerable body of work and a vast collection of letters that show his unrestrained thoughts, Anka Muhlstein offers a nuanced, intimate portrait of the artist whose independent spirit fostered an environment of freedom and autonomy..
Although a resolute atheist who never interjected political or religious messages in his art, he was fully aware of the consequences of his lineage.
Settled in France from the age of twenty-five but born in the Caribbean, he was not French and what is more he was Jewish.
Nevertheless, he felt a persistent sense of being set apart, different, and hard to classify.
The celebrated painter Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) occupied a central place in the artistic scene of his time: a founding member of the new school of French painting, he was a close friend of Monet, a longtime associate in Degas\'s and Mary Cassatt\'s experimental work, a support to Cézanne and Gauguin, and a comfort to Van Gogh, and was backed by the great Parisian art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel throughout his career.
From the acclaimed biographer and author of Balzac\'s Omelette , an engaging new work on the life of the father of Impressionism and the role his Jewish background played in his artistic creativity
