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Labeling him “the first Impressionist,” it presents Pissarro as a painter who led the way, albeit one focused on unglamorous aspects of everyday life, mostly in the countryside outside Paris.

The show includes the influential 94-year-old painter's works from the late 1960s, wall paintings from the last decade and the artist's most recent canvases.

In contrast to this lavish vision, at the show’s second venue, the convent of San Marco, visitors see the painter’s austere side.

There was a buzz in the room as he stood before Mexican painter Kahlo’s sleeping self-portrait.

In fact, when the painter mounted his own retrospective in Paris in 1932, he hung the works not according to chronology but jumbled together.