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Railroad to Dieppe, 1886, oil on canvas
Camille Pissarro, French, born 1830, died 1903
Pissarro -- the oldest of the Impressionists and the only one to exhibit in all eight Impressionist exhibitions -- embraced Neoimpressionism in the late 1880s. He was intrigued by the bold optical experiments of the young painters Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, who used small dabs of juxtaposed color to build pictures of great effect and intensity. Pissarro eventually abandoned the style, claiming it was fussy and time-consuming.
On loan from a private collection.
On view at Philadelphia Museum of Art, July 2013.
2013-07-06_0380pissarro_dieppe
Railroad to Dieppe, 1886, oil on canvas
Camille Pissarro, French, born 1830, died 1903
Pissarro -- the oldest of the Impressionists and the only one to exhibit in all eight Impressionist exhibitions -- embraced Neoimpressionism in the late 1880s. He was intrigued by the bold optical experiments of the young painters Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, who used small dabs of juxtaposed color to build pictures of great effect and intensity. Pissarro eventually abandoned the style, claiming it was fussy and time-consuming.
On loan from a private collection.
On view at Philadelphia Museum of Art, July 2013.