Fifty years of modern painting, Corot to Sargent (1908)
Phythian, John Ernest, 1858- · London, G. Richards · leaf 139
he eyes, whilenot interfering with his sight, forbade him longer to paintin the open air. But he was not to be driven into retire-ment. He simply went to Kouen, and there from housewindows painted the streets, the cathedral, the bridges, thequays. Then he went to Paris and worked similarly… … THE IMPRESSIONISTS AND THEIR ALLIES 99 themselves. But there is beauty to be drawn from them,even though, for the most part, they be commonplace, dull,or even ugly and dirty. Monet and Pissarro had discoveredthe artistic possibilities of London, and when he could nolonger work in the fields,…
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