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CAMILLE PISSARRO - BATH ROAD, LONDON
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Bath Road, London, 1897 |
- Bath Road, London is an 1897
Impressionist painting by the French artist Camille Pissarro
with a scene of the new garden suburb of Bedford Park near
Chiswick, noted for its distinctive Queen Anne Revival
architecture.
- It depicts the view from 62 Bath Road where the artist's son Lucien Pissarro had moved with his family the previous year.
- The woman and child playing in the front garden are
Lucien's wife Esther and daughter Orovida.
- At this time Camille had returned to a more orthodox form of impressionism
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After the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, having only Danish nationality and being unable to join the army, he moved his family to Norwood, then a village on the edge of London. However, his style of painting, which was a forerunner of what was later called "Impressionism", did not do well. He wrote to his friend, Théodore Duret, that "my painting doesn't catch on, not at all.
(Wikipediat)
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All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness,
I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working.
Camille Pissarro
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