Picture "Boulevard Montmartre by Night" (1897), framed
Picture "Boulevard Montmartre by Night" (1897), framed
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Picture "Boulevard Montmartre by Night" (1897), framed
At the beginning of 1897, Pissarro began to paint a series of pictures from his hotel room in Paris. In a total of 14 paintings, he captured the Boulevard Montmartre in the light of different seasons.
Original: 1897, oil on canvas, 53.3 x 64.8 cm, National Gallery, London.
Fine Art Giclée edition transferred directly onto artist's canvas and stretched on stretcher frame. Limited edition of 980 copies, numbered, with certificate. Framed in handmade, golden solid wood frame. Size approx. 58 x 69 cm (h/w). ars mundi Exclusive Edition.
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About Camille Pissarro
1830-1903
The French painter and graphic artist Camille Pissarro is one of the co-founders of French Impressionism. Along with Monet and Sisley, he was one of the first Impressionist landscape painters. He never got tired of painting the same motif in different moods and lighting in order to capture the changing play of colours in the light. It was not until the later work that he also addressed the theme of city life. In addition to numerous paintings, he left behind more than 200 etchings and lithographs. The correspondence with his son Lucien is an important testimony to the art appreciation of his time.
Pissarro was born on 10 July 1830 on the small Antillean island of St. Thomas. He began painting for two years in Caracas in 1852 with a friend and then studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and the independent Académie Suisse in Paris from 1855. The influence of Corot's style is particularly noticeable in the paintings of this period which are strongly toned atmospheric landscapes.
It was not until his contact with Claude Monet in 1859 that the Impressionist elements in his painting became stronger. After a visit to London in 1870/71, he found his way to a liberated use of colour in order to reproduce air and light impressions by studying Turner's paintings. Back in France he worked closely with Paul Cézanne in Pontoise and Auvers-sur-Oise. He produced his first still lifes. A phase of pointillism around 1885 can be traced back to his contact with George Seurat. Through his involvement in the independent exhibitions of the Impressionists, he became one of the most important artists of this style.
However, it was not until the 1990s that Pissarro, the father of seven children, gained the artistic recognition he desired. His solo exhibitions in Paris, where he died on 13 November 1903, became great successes. Now it was no longer fields, meadows and orchards that formed the centre of his choice of motifs but the big city with its many faces. Even today, his pictures captivate us with a high degree of freedom, freshness and beguiling colourfulness.
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Giclée = derived from the French verb gicler "to squirt, to spray".
The Giclée method is a digital printing process. It is a high-resolution, large-format print produced with an inkjet printer using special different-coloured dye- or pigment-based inks (usually six to twelve). The inks are lightfast, meaning they are resistant to harmful UV light. They provide a high level of nuance, contrast, and saturation.
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The style of Impressionism, which emerged in French painting around 1870, owes its name to Claude Monet's landscape 'Impression, Soleil Levant'. After initial rejection, it began a veritable triumphal procession.
Painters such as Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Auguste Renoir and others created motifs from everyday life, urban and landscape scenes in bright, natural light.
Impressionism can be seen as a reaction to academic painting. Rather than emphasizing content with a structured composition, it focused on the subject as it appears in the moment, often in a seemingly random snapshot. The reality was seen in all its variety of colours in natural lighting. Outdoor painting replaced studio painting.
Through the brightening of the palette and the dissolution of firm contours, a new approach to colour emerged. In many cases, the colours were no longer mixed on the palette but placed side by side on the canvas, so that the final impression emerged in the eye of the viewer with a certain distance. In "Pointillism", (with painters such as Georges Seurat or Paul Signac), this principle was taken to the extreme.
Outside France, Impressionism was taken up by painters such as Max Slevogt, Max Liebermann and Lovis Corinth in Germany, and by James A. M. Whistler in the United States.
However, Impressionism was only expressed to a limited extent in the art of sculpture. In the works of Auguste Rodin, who is considered one of the main representatives, a dissolution of surfaces is evident, in which the play of light and shadow is included in the artistic expression. Degas and Renoir created sculptures as well.