Pissarro
Americannoun
noun
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Renoir stopped making preparatory studies between 1865 and 1875 when, like his Impressionist colleagues Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley and Camille Pissarro, he worked directly from the motif, without preliminaries.
They may well be the reason that Pissarro has not had a retrospective in the U.S. since 1981—which was also the first in many decades.
“The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro’s Impressionism” at the Denver Art Museum through Feb. 8, 2026, which was organized with the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany, sides with the advocates.
Labeling him “the first Impressionist,” it presents Pissarro as a painter who led the way, albeit one focused on unglamorous aspects of everyday life, mostly in the countryside outside Paris.
The display then reverts to Pissarro’s beginnings.
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