No problem. In place of the Monet, the museum moved "Edge of the Woods," a phenomenal 1879 landscape by Camille Pissarro, into the lead spot in the East Wing gallery devoted to Impressionism.

It sidelines landscape - long and justly considered the mainstay of Impressionist eminence Camille Pissarro - in favor of his portraits and other pictures centered on human figures.

Exhibitions: New York, National Academy of Design, Celebrated Paintings by Great French Masters, 1887, no. 176bis Fort Lauderdale, Museum of Art, Impressionism to the Present: Camille Pissarro and His ...

Art A Jewish artist so gifted, he could even teach a stone to paint The ever-evolving impressionist Camille Pissarro is the subject of Anka Muhlstein’s latest book ...

Henri Matisse once asked Camille Pissarro to define Impressionism. “An Impressionist,” the older painter replied, “is the artist who paints a different picture every time, a painter who ...

Pissarro was born in St Thomas in the West Indies, the son of a Créole mother and a father of Portuguese-Jewish descent. He worked as a clerk in his father’s general store until 1852 when he ran away ...

After a three-year legal dispute, the University of Oklahoma (OU) has agreed to return Camille Pissarro‘s 1886 painting La Bergère Rentrant des Moutons (Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep) to French ...

Camille Pissarro’s 1886 Prairie a Eragny was bought by AGSA three years ago for $4.6 million and now France wants it back for a major exhibition at the famous Musee du Luxembourg in March next year.

Richard Thomson. New Amsterdam Books, $30 (128pp) ISBN 978-0-941533-90-4 One of the most independent of the impressionists, Pissarro is a figure rich in paradox.