Published: June 5, 2013
The first exhibition in Spain of the so-called "Father of Impressionism," Camille Pissarro, opens on at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid.
The retrospective, which will run through to September 15, includes 79 of the artist's works from private collections and museums across the globe.
The Danish-French artist, who lived from 1830 to 1903, was a mentor to Paul Cezanne and Paul Gauguin, and an inspiration for painters worldwide. Cezanne dubbed him "the humble and colossal Pissarro".
He mostly painted scenes of rural and urban French life, showing empathy for workers in the fields and streets. He sold few of his paintings in his lifetime but his works have fetched millions at auctions in recent decades.