PISSARRO: FATHER OF IMPRESSIONISM

18 February to 22 June

Camille Pissarro is considered the father of Impressionism, not least as he was the only artist to show work in all eight “Impressionist” exhibitions in Paris from 1874 to 1886.

Now almost 150 years later, paintings spanning the French master’s entire career will go on show alongside pieces by those he inspired, such as Claude Monet, Georges Seurat and Paul Gauguin. Above all, however, Pissarro’s ahead-of-the-curve versatility will be underlined here, from the early, chunky flat marks of Farm at Montfoucault in Snow, to the optical mixing of View from my Window [above]. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. www.ashmolean.org