{"product_id":"9781635421705","title":"Camille Pissarro","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Best Book of 2023 by \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the acclaimed biographer and author of \u003ci\u003eBalzac’s Omelette\u003c\/i\u003e, an engaging new work on the life of “the father of Impressionism” and the role his Jewish background played in his artistic creativity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe celebrated painter Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) occupied a central place in the artistic scene of his time: a founding member of the new school of French painting, he was a close friend of Monet, a longtime associate in Degas’s and Mary Cassatt’s experimental work, a support to Cézanne and Gauguin, and a comfort to Van Gogh, and was backed by the great Parisian art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel throughout his career. Nevertheless, he felt a persistent sense of being set apart, different, and hard to classify. Settled in France from the age of twenty-five but born in the Caribbean, he was not French and what is more he was Jewish. Although a resolute atheist who never interjected political or religious messages in his art, he was fully aware of the consequences of his lineage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on Pissarro’s considerable body of work and a vast collection of letters that show his unrestrained thoughts, Anka Muhlstein offers a nuanced, intimate portrait of the artist whose independent spirit fostered an environment of freedom and autonomy.","brand":"Anka Muhlstein","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":48438421192916,"sku":"9781635421705","price":39.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_8fa2e8a9-978d-4fa5-81bd-8f5e2dc9eae2.jpg?v=1786148916","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781635421705","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}