My favourite Paris gallery, the Musée d'Orsay has a special exhibition of the paintings and drawings of Cézanne and Pissarro 1865-1885 from 28 Feb - 28 May 2006. This is in the centenary year of Paul Cezanne's death (see earlier article on Cezanne).
"The Musée d'Orsay offers an opportunity to look at two major artists of the second half of the 19th century, Paul Cézanne and Camille Pissarro, in a totally new light.
Over the period of twenty years when these two painters were close friends they often worked on the same themes, treading the same paths around Pontoise and Auvers-sur-Oise. Each influenced the other, while retaining his own identity.
This exhibition of portraits, still lifes and landscapes by Cézanne and Pissarro demonstrates both analogies and differences. The resulting dialogue shows just what a crucial role their pictorial research played in the birth of twentieth century art.
In this centenary year of Cézanne's death, the Musée d'Orsay celebrates the "Master from Aix", presenting his work alongside that of the friend to whom in 1902 he paid this moving tribute: "As for old Pissarro, he was a father to me. He was a man to be consulted, rather like God.""
For more info see www.musee-orsay.fr
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