Corne Akkers

Clairobscur - 06-10-20, Drawing, Pastels on Pastel Sandpaper

2020

Lost and Found Again It has been a while since I wandered through the Hatert Meres (Hatertse Vennen). In 2014 to be precise. Hatert Meres 09 (2014) was my last pastel of that series...

"A well spent day brings happy sleep." "” Leonardo da Vinci I really enjoy the freedom working with soft pastels brings. Their very nature, ie a blunt stick, dictates that you sh...

First heavy snow of the season in Southeast Michigan. Named after the hit 1969 song featured in the movie "Hair." Contact artist for additional framing options. :: Drawing :: Impr...

Sea swimming - 30-07-20 One of those days. Sold something around midnight, did my regular things like website maintenance, teaching, eating and returning to my work in progress. B...

Rotterdam Revisited After my last drawing of Rotterdam (Het Depot - 15-03-21) I thought it was time to do another drawing. I had something vague in mind: something impressionistic a...

Silhouettes You can access artist’s inspiration from the celebrations, dance events, ferias, festivals taking place in AndalucÃ

This intimate work by Camille Pissarro represents a period of significance for the Impressionist master. The early 1880s was a time of great experimentation for the artist, after he spent much of the preceding decade devoted to landscape painting. Shifting focus, he embarked on a series of works in a range of media dedicated to the human figure - particularly peasant women. In watercolor, gouache, pastel, and print, Pissarro captured the rural female and the minute moments of domestic life. Depicting a peasant woman tying her scarf, Paysanne Nouant son Foulard displays the harmony of color and composition that typifies his work of the 1880s. Composed of a symphony of color and strokes of paint, the work exemplifies the plein air technique of Pissarro's best Impressionist canvases. A true master of his art, no other artist successfully chronicled rural peasant life quite like Pissarro. Counted among the most respected artists of the 19th century and widely considered the father of Impressionism, Pissarro’s works experienced a surge in interest in the early 2000s. This is reflected in Pissarro’s new auction record of over $32.1 million, set at a 2014 Sotheby’s auction in London, which far surpassed his previous record of $14.6 million. Born in St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies, Pissarro was sent to school in Paris at the age of 11, where he first displayed a talent for drawing. In 1855, having convinced his parents of his determination to pursue a career as an artist rather than work in the family shipping business, he returned to Paris where he studied at the Académie Suisse alongside Claude Monet. At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, Pissarro moved to England. With Monet, he painted a series of landscapes around South-East London and studied English landscape painters in the museums. When he returned home to Louveciennes a year later, Camille discovered that all but 40 of the 1500 paintings he had left there - almost 20 years of work - had been vandalized. In 1872, Camille settled in Pontoise where he remained for the next 10 years, gathering a close circle of friends around him. Gauguin was among the many artists to visit him there and Cézanne, who lived nearby, came for long periods to work and learn. In 1874, Pissarro participated in the first Impressionist exhibition...

"Paysage avec batteuse a Montfoucault (Landscape with Thresher at Montfoucault)" is a pastel by French Impressionist Camille Pissarro. The artwork is signed lower right, "C. Pissarro...

"Vaches au paturage sur les bords de la Seine (Cows Grazing on the Banks of the Seine)" is a pastel on paper by Alfred Sisley. The artwork is signed lower left, "Sisley". The framed ...

Work : Soft Pastel on archival and heavy paper for pastel drawing. The colors are fixed on the paper and the work has been treated with a UV-resistant varnish. Signed lower right. Un...

Accompanied by certificate no. 2772163 from the artist's archives.

Erudite, exacting Rob Dutoit has a long history of showing in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Dutoit’s art is often subtle, with hints of light peeking through clouds and forests. His p...