“In both of his versions of La cueillette des pommes, then, Pissarro was carefully constructing reality, augmenting it in order to be able to give a more profound sensation for the viewer, echoing Degas’ statement that, ‘Drawing is not what one sees but what one can make others see’ (quoted in R. Kendall, ed., Degas by Himself: Drawings Prints Paintings Writings, London, 1987, p. 319)…Crucially, then, Pissarro was looking forwards as well as backwards, keeping abreast of the advances being propagated by the avant garde. Indeed, it was during his time in Pontoise, not least during the early 1880s, that he was to come to influence younger artists including Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin, paving the way for the development of Post-Impressionism, as well as Seurat and Signac’s Neo-Impressionism.”

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