ornery and alienated of men—loved
Pissarro. Years later, he would identify
himself as “Cézanne, pupil of Pissarro.”
Together this group of remarkable
painters would go on to invent modern
art with the movement known as
Impressionism. They painted one another
and painted next to one another and
supported one another emotionally and
financially, and today their paintings
hang in every major art museum in the
world. But in the 1860s, they were
struggling. Monet was broke. Renoir
once had to bring him bread so that he
wouldn’t starve. Not that Renoir was in
any better shape. He didn’t have enough
money to buy stamps for his letters.
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