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Connaught Brown explores the work of two titans of Impressionism – Camille Pissarro and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

This major exhibition will, through their art, examine their views on society, subject matter, practice and technique.

As the founders of Impressionism, alongside Monet and Sisley, the two artists are often associated with one another. They exhibited together at the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874 in Paris and two of its subsequent editions.

Despite starting as friends, the right wing Renoir became alienated from the left wing Pissarro as the years went by. These ideologies …