Camille Pissarro: the Jewish grandfather of modern art
Artist Camille Pissarro was key to the Impressionist movement, but often over-shadowed by his more famous friends.
Anthea Gerrie tours a new exhibition of his work with his great-grand-daughter to learn more about his artistic and Jewish legacy
It’s a family affair,” explains Lélia Pissarro, wiping away a tear of emotion as she tours a new exhibition of her great-grandfather Camille’s work, which she says is “the most engaging I’ve ever seen — and I’ve seen plenty all over the world. This is the first one which has brought me to tears.”
The blockbuster show is at the Ashmolean , the Oxford museum which holds the greatest collection of Pissarro works on paper. Pissarro was the Jewish artist considered not just the father of Impressionism but, by some, the grandfather of modern art. The show, the first in the UK devoted to the artist in 20 years, opens today in the city of dreaming spires. Lélia is here from her home in London to preview the hang and talk about the compulsion to make art which still grips the Pissarro family, but also a sense of Jewish identity which is perhaps stronger than the artist could ever have expected. Although he raged against anti-semitism he married a non-Jew and was not religious.'>>>
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