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Article: Impressive Impressionist: The works of Camille Pissarro, a founder of
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- The Jewish Week
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- March 3, 1995
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John Mendelsohn
The Jewish Week
03-03-1995
Impressive Impressionist: The works of Camille Pissarro, a founder of the. genre, make New York return following three-decade absence.
Camille Pissarro, the great French artist, may not have been an observant Jew, but he may have been the Abraham of Impressionism.
"We may all descend from Pissarro," noted Pissarro's contemporary Cezanne, another innovator of modern art. "He was lucky enough to be born in the West Indies; there he learned to draw without masters."
The quality of Pissarro's work, as well as the range of his creativity, can now be seen comprehensively in New York for the first time in 30 years at a major new exhibit at the Jewish Museum.