Camille pissarro family biography letters
Example of family biography!
Edited by JOHN REWALD
A POSTHUMOUSLY published collection of letters written with no eye to publication can be a tasteless, scandalmongering indiscretion; a disappointing compendium of scraps, boring trivia, and tedious omission; or a revelation of important lives and times and techniques of working and living.
These very personal letters written during the last twenty years of his life (from 1883 to 1903) by West Indian born Camille Pissarro, distinguished and underestimated French Impressionist leader, belong to the revelation category, and revelation in this sense does not imply sensationalism.
Camille pissarro family biography letters
These letters record twenty years of poverty, suffering, and patience, twenty years of “seeking the rare bird whose plumage is resplendent with all the colors of the rainbow, whose song is musical and pure; perfection. . . .”
There are three very great published collections of notes, letters, or journals by painters: da Vinci’s notebooks; Delacroix’s journal: van Gogh’s letters to hi