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Specially imported from the USA from the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, this rich compendium is illustrated with more than 200 paintings, works on paper and archival images. It offers a definitive portrait of one of the most passionately political painters of the 19th century. Camille Pissarro's lifelong interest in the human condition is unique among Impressionist landscape painters. From his early years in the Caribbean and Venezuela until his death in Paris in 1903 he produced a vast oeuvre of drawn, painted and printed figures. He was also a committed reader of radical social, political and economic theory including the writings of French protoanarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, friends such as Jean Grave and Ilisée Reclus, and the great anarcho-communist Peter Kropotkin. His profound knowledge of social philosophy which informs much of his art is shown in the realities of everyday life as well as his vision of a harmonious world after the revolution. Here are intimate studies of family and friends, bustling market scenes, rural labour and key to his humanism is his identity as a member of a diasporic Sephardic Jewish family. These individuals lived and worked in Uruguay and Venezuela, France and England and the US during the artist's lifetime. Some of the chapters include Painting Millet After Nature, Maids and Domestic Service, Drawing the Figure, Pissarro Exhibits and Figure Paintings, The Market Economy, The Figure in the City and The Bathers: Remembering Cézanne. There are carnivals in Venezuela, black women chatting by the sea, Madame Pissarro sewing beside a window, the artist's daughter carrying a posy of flowers and wearing a summer hat, Portrait of Felix Reading, many full length studies, some of nude women, and there are other examples like Paul Signac's The Milliners and archive photos of Pissarro himself heading outside with his special easel on wheels. Gloriously illustrated, mostly in colour, hundreds of examples.

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