Fishmarket
1902
Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Fishmarket, 1902. Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903). Oil on canvas; unframed: 66 x 81.3 cm (26 x 32 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.113 This impressive view of a bustling fish market belongs to a series of paintings that Pissarro made during the summer of 1902 depicting the harbor at Dieppe. Borrowing from the Impressionist method of portraying a modern city from a high vantage point, he enlivened the scene with rich, vibrant colors applied with energetic, broken brushstrokes. Ever concerned with the fleeting effects of atmosphere, Pissarro painted the interpenetration of industrial steam with the clouds in the brilliant, sunlit sky. Pissarro painted this work from an upper level hotel room in Dieppe. He was suffering from a recurring eye infection at the time that prevented him from working outdoors.
- Maker/Artist
- Pissarro, Camille
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 66 x 81.3 cm (26 x 32 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed and dated lower left: 1902 C. Pissarro
- Departments
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 2020.113
- Credit Line
- Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
- Exhibitions
- Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection, <em>Inaugural Exposition of French Art</em>. California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco (1915)., <em>Masterpieces of the Ex-Matsukata Collection</em>. National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (May 14-July 10,1960)., <em>Treasured Masterpieces of the XIXth Century Painting.</em> Galerie Fujikawa, Osaka; Yomiuri Shimbun, Tokyo (1973)., <em>Western Painting and Modern Western Style Painting in Japan: One Century from Imitation to Creation.</em> Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka City, Japan (August 15-September 26,1986)., <em>The Triumph of French Painting: Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse</em>. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore (March 12-July 16, 2000); Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa (August 13-November 26, 2000); Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach (January 6-March 11, 2001); Royal Academy of Arts, London (June 30-September 23, 2001); Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo (November 3, 2001-January 6, 2002)., <em>XIXth and XXth Century Master Paintings and Sculpture</em>. Acquavella Galleries, New York, NY (March 1-May 1, 2002).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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