The great artist Camille Pissarro, the famous founder of Impressionism with his retrospective and 67 oils is being held in Barcelona with the collaboration of the Museum of Thyssen-Bornemisza.

The great artist Camille Pissarro, the famous founder of Impressionism with his retrospective and 67 oils is being held in Barcelona with the collaboration of the Museum of Thyssen-Bornemisza.

A total of 67 oils of Camille Pisarro integrate the current retrospective held in Barcelona with the collaboration of 47 institutions, including the Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. The exhibition previously shown in Madrid was quite successful with 150.000 visitors.
Pissarro was the only artist to have shown his work at all eight Paris Impressionist exhibitions, from 1874 to 1886. He "acted as a father figure not only to the Impressionists" but to all four of the major Post-Impressionists, including Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin. He was a close friend of Claude Monet, Armand Guillaumin as well. As a part of the group of the above mentioned artists, Pissarro was concerned about the importance of portraying individuals in natural settings, and expressed his dislike of any artifice or grandeur in his works, despite what the Salon demanded for its exhibits.
Many of his 1.500 paintings he made in 20 years were lost or destroyed after the war when he returns home to France. The birth of Impressionism was documented anyway. Revising his position and his work, Pissarro was one of the few artists who went from Impressionism to neo-Impressionism, a master who continuously grows adapting to new theories. Eventually he ends up being more subtle, his colour scheme more defined, his drawing firmer, according to Rewald.
Assistant General Manager of the Foundation La Caixa Elisa Durán expressed to be open for future collaborations and highlighted the generosity of Carmen Thyssen who not only collects art, but makes it accessible to the general public.

The Pissarro’s exhibition can be seen in Barcelona until January the 26, reclaims the importance of Camille Pissarro, who has been eclipsed by the brilliance and magnificence of Claude Monet, according to the curator of the exposition Guillermo Solana.