A
painter of nature, Pissarro moved to Louveciennes with his family
in 1866. Here he met and worked with Paul
Cezanne and remained until 1871.
Then, with Claude Monet,
he fled to England to escape the German
invasion. There, Pissarro met Paul Durand-Ruel, who became his art
dealer and the man whose name is inseparably linked with the presentation
of the Impressionists to the world.
Upon his return to France, Pissarro found his house ransacked and
over 1,000 canvases destroyed by soldiers. Undeterred in his desire
to paint, he moved to Pontoise, where Cezanne joined him and where
he later worked with Paul
Gauguin. Neither of these two masters
ever forgot him and acknowledged their debt to his brilliant instruction
until the end of their lives.
The most classical and humanistic of the Impressionists, Pissarro
was extremely important not only for his own quietly serene art but
for stimulating Cezanne's search for solidity, for contributing to
Gauguin's early training, and for his advice and counsel to the other
younger members of the Impressionist group.
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