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3/6/2013

Pissarro

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

curated by Guillermo Solana and Paula Luengo

The Museo Thyssen‐Bornemisza is presenting the first monographic exhibition in Spain on the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro (1830‐1903). The exhibition brings together 79 works loaned from numerous museums and collections world‐wide, including a famous palette on which the artist painted a rural scene using all the colours of the spectrum. Landscape, the prevailing genre within Pissarro’s oeuvre, provides the focus of the exhibition, which is organised chronologically around the different places in which the artist lived and worked. While Pissarro spent most of his life in villages such as Louveciennes, Pointoise and Éragny, the last two rooms in the exhibition are devoted to the urban views that he painted in the last decade of his life, including his numerous depictions of Paris, London, Rouen, Dieppe and Le Havre.

Curated by Guillermo Solana with Paula Luengo as technical curator and produced by the staff of the Museo Thyssen‐Bornemisza, this exhibition will firstly be shown in Madrid, from 4 June to 15 September, after which it opens on 15 October at the CaixaForum in Barcelona. The catalogue includes an essay by the curator, a chronology by Paula Luengo and two texts by the leading specialists on Pissarro: Richard R. Brettell and Joachim Pissarro (a descendent of the artist).

“Humble and colossal”, as his friend Cézanne described him, Camille Pissarro is undoubtedly the fundamental figure within Impressionism but at the same time the least recognised. Cézanne himself said: “[...] perhaps we all come from Pissarro. He had the good fortune to be born in the Antilles, where he learned to draw without a teacher. He told me so hiimself. By 1 1865 he had d already eeliminated b black, dark brown, Sienna earth t tones and ochres. It’s a fa ‘I only painted w act. y with the thr primary colours a their im ree y and mmediate derivvatives’, he told me. As s a result, Pissarro was the first Immpressionistt.”

It wa Pissarro who, in 18 as 873, wrote the statute of the artists’ group that was about to es launcch its group p exhibitions. He was also the only y artist of th he group to o take part in all eight exhibbitions betw ween 1874 and 1886. However, Pissarro’s c career would be overs shadowed he resounding success of his friend by th d and felloww Impressio onist Claude e Monet. Th he present exhibbition sets o out to resto ore his repuutation, not just as the “first Impreessionist” b but also as the mmaster of th he pioneers of modern art.

More information and images please contact to: Museo Thyssen‐Bornemisza
Oficina de Prensa. Paseo del Prado, 8. 28014 Madrid. Tel. +34 914203944 /913600236
Fax+34914202780.prensa@museothyssen.org; www.museothyssen.org;

Museo Thyssen‐Bornemisza
Paseo del Prado 8, 28014. Madrid
Opening times: Tuesdays to Sundays, 10am to 7pm. Saturdays, 10am to 9pm. Last entry one hour before closing.
Ticket prices:
General ticket, 8 Euros
Reduced price ticket: 5.50 Euros for visitors aged over 65, pensioners, students with proof of status and Large Families
Free entry: children aged under 12 and unemployed Spanish citizens with official proof of status
Temporary exhibition + Permanent Collection:
General ticket, 12 Euros
Reduced price ticket: 7.5 Euros
Free entry: children aged under 12 and unemployed Spanish citizens with official proof of status
Advance ticket purchase at the Museum’s ticket desks, on its website or on tel: 902 760 511

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