Letters to his son Lucien by Camille Pissarro

Author:Camille Pissarro [Pissarro, Camille]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Pissarro, Camille, 1830-1903
Publisher: New York : Pantheon
Published: 1943-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

36.—C. Pissarro: Peasant Girl, about 1885.

37.—C. Pissarro: Little Peasant Girl, about 1885.

ERAGNY, JANUARY 10, 1892

My dear Lucien,

Yesterday I had Joseph Durand at the house, he came with his friend Mellerio, a young art critic. They were delighted with what they saw. The young Durand informed me that his father was expecting to come out here any day to reach an agreement with me about holding a general show of my work 5 this would have to take place from the 25th of January, before the exhibition organized by the Sar Peladan, 1 which will cause such a tumult in the press that anything coming after it will be an anti-climax. It has to be the 25th or not at all . . . as you realize, no doubt, I am caught napping} I have only ten days in which to finish from five to six canvases begun from the window, and my figure paintings. If my eye does not betray me, I will be ready. As soon as I see Durand senior, I will write you to come, there will be so much to do and I would like to work until the last moment. And then I'll have to select canvases of different periods and go hunting for them or asking collectors. Let us hope that something will come of this and that we won't be disappointed this time.

1 The "Stir" Piladan, an eccentric figure, an idealist and spiritualist writer, defender of a dead aesthetic borrowed partly from Dante and Leonardo, had founded L'Ordre de la Rose-Croix Catholique with the aim of renewing art through mysticism. The first exhibition of this Ordre opened on March 10, 1892, at Durand-RueVs. It had considerable success, but none of the painters belonging to the group is remembered in the history of art.

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ERAGNY, JANUARY 13, 1892

My dear Lucien,

It is decided, the exhibition is to run from January 25 to February 20. This morning I received a letter from Joseph Durand asking me to get ready, his father is still in London but will return to make all the arrangements. I don't know whether he will have time to come to Eragny—but in any case you must come as soon as you can. I need you to make expeditions to the collectors. Everything else is going well.

I sent Durand the list of my pictures, twenty-five canvases, with the dimensions, so that he can arrange for having them framed.

PARIS, FEBRUARY 7, 1892

My dear Lucien,

Always a crowd at my exhibition. I sold my little Sunset, the one I did from my window. With the three other canvases sold, that makes 5,200 francs. The sale is not extraordinary, the collectors seem to be hesitating; I hope the Americans give the whip-hand later.

Lucien returned to London at the beginning of April, after the closing of his father's exhibition, which had comprised fifty canvases painted between 1870 and 1892 as well as twenty-one gouaches executed between 1880 and 1890. The foreword to the catalogue had been written by Georges Lecomte.

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