Pissarro's Art

The Legion of Honor (San Francisco, USA) presents Pissarro's People, a show which brings us face to face with one of the most complex and captivating members of the Impressionist group, a man whose life was as quietly revolutionary as his art.

The exhibition offers a perspective on Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the painter and printmaker best known for his large body of landscapes and urban views. This is the first exhibition to focus on Pissarro's personal ties and social ideas through his life-long engagement with the human figure.

The exhibition brings together over 100 oil paintings and works on paper from public and private collections around the world. Ranging from Pissarro's earliest years in Paris until his death in 1903, these works explore the three dimensions of his life that are essential to a full understanding of the human element in his art: his family ties, his friendships and his intense intellectual involvement with the social and political theories of his time.

Presiding over the powerful themes of this exhibition are three of the artist's four major self-portraits, starting with his earliest Self-Portrait (1873) from the Musée d'Orsay painted at the age of forty-three.

Date: until January 22.
Location: Legion Of Honor. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Lincoln Park, 34th Avenue and Clement Street, San Francisco, CA 94121. USA.
Opening hours: from Tuesday to Sunday from 9.30am to 5.15pm.

See some of Pissarro's works in the following slideshow: