Camille Pissarro and His Family: The Pissarro Collection in the Ashmolean Museum FROM THE PUBLISHER
The collection of drawings and watercolours by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, is the largest in the world and is the largest collection of drawings by any single Impressionist artist. A close friend of Cezanne and Gauguin, he was the only member of the group to exhibit in all eight Impressionist exhibitions between 1874-76. This work illustrates the full range of his work from the 1850s through to one of his last pictures, painted from his window in Le havre in 1903, "Quai au Havre".
His eldest son, Lucien (1863-1944) settled in England in 1890 and became a member of the Camden Town Group with Sickert and Shannon. Also an engraver, he founded the Eragny Press named after his childhood village in France. The book also touches on the work of Lucien's three younger brothers - Felix, Ludovic-Rodolphe and Paul-Emile, and of Lucien's daughten Orovida (1893-1968), who developed her own individual style as an etcher and painter on silk.
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