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...Boston, a definitive retrospective of Camille Pissarro...
Then there are some artists whose reputations gratuitously disappear and subsequently rise again, wobbling in and out of historical focus. The outstanding example of these, among the impressionists, was Camille Pissarro...
...Pissarro was the least spectacular of the impressionists. An eye used to Monet (and Monet is what many people believe impressionism was all about) will be apt to find Pissarro conservative-more of a tonal painter, almost, than a colorist...
There has long been a tendency to repeat, without checking it against the pictures, Gauguin's irritable verdict that Pissarro was a good second-rater, "always wanting to be on top of the latest trend ... he's lost any kind of personality, and his work lacks unity." So although there has been no lack of Degas shows, Monet retrospectives, homages to Cézanne and museum tributes to Bazille or Caillebotte, Pissarro has remained less known-an irony, since, with his peculiar steadfastness and probity, he was the linchpin of the impressionist group...
...Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the long process of rehabilitating Pissarro has begun with the first retrospective of his work ever held in the U.S.: 81 paintings and 113 drawings and prints, as well as souvenirs of his life, assembled by a team of five art historians (two French, one English, two American). Already seen at the Hayward Gallery in London and the Grand Palais in Paris, this is the definitive show of an artist without whom the workings of the French avant-garde between 1870 and 1900 cannot be fully understood...