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Article: Lost Pissarro found
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 2, 1995
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THE IMPRESSIONISTS and Post-Impressionists are our new old
masters: the painters everybody loves to love. Their works are
exhibited and re- exhibited; posters, diaries, and books of
reproductions flow unceasingly from the presses. And you might
think that there were no surprises left in the sunlit fields of
Monet, Renoir et Cie. But you would be wrong. A new exhibition in
the Sackler Galleries at the Royal Academy, From Manet to Gauguin:
Masterpieces from Swiss Private Collections, in fact, contains many
notable pictures which have not been publicly exhibited in living
memory, and, most remarkably, a beautiful tempera by Pissarro that
nobody knew existed at all.
It was recently discovered ...