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Painting hard, occasionally exhibiting, Camille Pissarro soon joined a group of artists including Manet, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne and Sisley who used to meet at a café known as Le Guerbois, on the Avenue de Clichy. In the oceans of talk at that café, the group gradually evolved theories of painting. They wanted to paint light, and they wanted to throw aside the moldy palette of the Academicians for pure tones, yellows, vermilions, emerald-greens. The friends of the café Guerbois had no name for them selves until April 15, 1874 when the Photographer Nadar lent them...
...strangle hold on the output of an entire school as did canny old Paul Durand-Ruel of Paris with the French Impressionists. Sixty years ago, when most of conservative Paris thought they were madmen. Dealer Durand-Ruel risked his fortune and his artistic reputation on Manet, Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro, Cézanne, Degas, with the result that almost every one of their canvases has passed at one time or another through the firm. The cellars of Durand-Ruel et Cie in Paris and New York still contain untold treasures of their works...
...south of France. His first job was painting copies of 18th Century French pictures on fans and window shades for a Paris factory. Before he was 25 he knew most of the men who were to be his lifelong friends and associates in Impressionism: Monet, Cézanne, Sisley, Pissarro, Diaz. He enlisted in the cavalry for the Franco-Prussian war, but nothing happened to him. Very little happened to him all his life. He was a painter's painter, passionately interested in the technique of his craft, with a lusty sensuousness that has caused Collector Barnes to compare...
Nearly five years after the original charge was made, a court in Fontainebleau, France, found Painter Jean François Millet's grandson Jean Charles guilty of forging canvases, selling them to foreigners as the work of Grandfather Millet, Monet, Sisley, Pissarro (TIME, May 19, 1930; Feb.11). Grandson Millet and his partner in forgery were sentenced to six months in jail, fined 500 francs ($33) each, ordered to pay a total of 120,000 francs to the dealer who brought the charge. Carefully suppressed was evidence as to how many pictures were forged and who paid how much...
...Sisley Huddleton, suave cosmopolite, journalist, bon vivant, author (In and About Paris; Louis XIV in Love and War; Europe in Zigzag) radioed to the Christian Science Monitor: A MORE DREARY SET OF NEWSPAPER MEN THAN IS NOW TO BE MET IN THE BRITISH CAPITAL IT HAS NEVER BEEN MY LOT TO ENCOUNTER...