Vente de tableaux et peintures de Camille Pissarro

Camille Pissarro is one of the great names in 19th-century painting, recognised as a pioneer of Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism. Born in 1830 in Saint Thomas, in the Danish West Indies (now the US Virgin Islands), he grew up between the Caribbean and France before settling permanently in Paris. Rejecting the academicism that dominated his era, he developed an artistic vision centred on the observation of nature and the representation of everyday life. Throughout his career, he was committed to plein air painting, faithful to the variations of light and the rhythms of rural and urban life.

Camille Pissarro played a central role in the birth of the Impressionist movement, participating in all of the group's collective exhibitions between 1874 and 1886. He was also one of the first to take an interest in Pointillism, notably alongside Seurat and Signac, without ever abandoning a sensitive and intuitive approach to painting. His work covers a wide variety of subjects: agricultural scenes in Louveciennes, Bazincourt and Éragny, urban views of Paris, Rouen and London, portraits and still lifes. Through his vibrant, often fragmented brushwork, he sought to convey the effects of the atmosphere and movements of the real world.

Pissarro was also a generous teacher, influencing younger artists such as Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin and Georges Seurat. His correspondence reveals his thoughts on art, politics (he was a libertarian) and society. Despite persistent financial difficulties, he continued to work with remarkable consistency until his death in 1903.

Today, Camille Pissarro is considered a founding figure of modern art, at the crossroads of the major pictorial developments of the late 19th century. His work, marked by the diversity of his subjects, his search for visual truth and his fidelity to a humanist vision, continues to be exhibited and studied throughout the world.