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Article: Pissarro in London.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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IT would have done something to civilise the new and much hyped Modern Tate Gallery on the South Bank if the exhibition, Pissarro in London, had been held there, but it is being mounted at the National Gallery with a scholarship and coherence unknown across the Thames.
Fogs are almost unknown in London at present and snowfalls are uncommon. In Victorian times it was not so: that is what Monet and Pissarro liked. Monet once said that 'without the fog London would not be a beautiful city'. Pissarro relished the London winter and, in 1902, with customary amiability, told an admirer how he had 'studied the effects of fog and snow' in 'the charming suburb' of Lower ...
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