Pissarro
Art Medal
Camille Pissarro was born in 1830 to a Sephardic-French Jewish family. He spent most of his life, from 1855 until his death in 1903, in or around Paris.
Pissarro, along with Monet, Cézanne, Renoir, and others, was a member of the Impressionist movement, and the only one to exhibit in all eight of its exhibitions. They sought to express everyday life through a new way of capturing the artist's initial subjective impression.
The artwork embedded in the medal is one of the artist's most famous. It depicts a young woman washing her feet in a river. A bright light illuminates the woman and the river, and the delicate scene, full of innocence and tenderness, also hints at eroticism. On the reverse side of the medal, in relief, is the work "Boats."
Designer:
Original Creation: Camille Pissarro
Design: Avraham Pat
Silk Printing: Oscar Haifa Art Printers
Embossing: Hecht Products, Tel Aviv
Gold - The Government Mint, Israel.
Silver and Bronze - Hecht Products, Tel Aviv.
