IN the 1880’s when rotund Camille Pissarro walked into Paris’ Cafe de la Nouvelle Athenes with his great prophet’s beard streaming and his portfolio tucked under his arms, fellow artists would greet ...

What is the relationship between philosophy and art history? In its origin, in Hegel’s 1820s lectures on aesthetics, art history was a philosophically informed discipline. Nowadays, however, the ...

Camille Pissarro’s retrospective is coming to the Denver Art Museum (DAM), and the Mile High City is the only U.S. venue to exhibit the first major show of the “Father of Impressionism” in 40 years.

The museum says a Jewish collector received a fair price for the work in 1941. The heirs say sales from that time are considered to have been forced and void under French law. By Tom Mashberg The 19th ...

A writer used Camille Pissarro’s paintings of suburban London and a ‘lost’ railway as a lens for exploring the city’s history — and settling an arcane mystery. The Crystal Palace railway station is ...

David Jiménez is a Spanish journalist and author, and is the former editor in chief of El Mundo. MADRID — For a country that gave the world Picasso and boasts some of the finest art collections in its ...

Pissarro was born in St Thomas in the West Indies, the son of a Créole mother and a father of Portuguese-Jewish descent. He worked as a clerk in his father’s general store until 1852 when he ran away ...