Lucien Pissarro
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Lucien Pissarro | |
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Nationality | French, British citizen |
Known for | Landscape painting, printmaking, wood engraving |
Movement | Impressionism Neo-Impressionism |
Spouse |
Esther Levi Bensusan (m. 1892) |
Lucien Pissarro (20 February 1863 – 10 July 1944) was a French
Biography
Pissarro was born on 20 February 1863 in Paris, French Third Republic.[1] He was the oldest of seven children; the son of French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro and his wife Julie (née Vellay).[1] He studied with his father and—like his siblings Georges and Félix—he spent his formative years surrounded by his father's fellow artists, such as Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, who frequented the Pissarro home. He was influenced by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac.
He first visited
Pissarro associated with Walter Sickert in Fitzroy Street, and in 1906 became a member of the New English Art Club. From 1913 to 1919 he painted landscapes of Dorset, Westmorland, Devon, Essex, Surrey and Sussex.
In 1916 Pissarro became a British citizen. While in Britain he was one of the founders of the
From 1922 to 1937 he painted regularly in the south of France, interspersed with painting expeditions to Derbyshire, south Wales and Essex. From 1934 to 1944 he exhibited at the
References
- ^ ISBN 9781849763851. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
- The Bancroft Library
- ISBN 0-7137-1347-X, p. 31
- ISBN 0-9532609-5-X
- ^ "James Bolivar Manson", Tate collection online, material from Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II. Retrieved 18 December 2007.
Further reading
- Arts Council, Lucien Pissarro 1863–1944 a centenary exhibition (1963)
- Bensusan-Butt, J. Recollections of Lucien Pissarro in his seventies (1977)
- Bidwell, J. MacGregor, M. (eds), Pastorale, wood engravings by Lucien Pissarro, (2011. Whittington Press)
- Canterbury City Council Museums, Lucien Pissarro his influence on English art 1890–1914 (1986)
- Fine Art Society, Drawings, watercolours, oil paintings, woodcuts and etchings by Lucien Pissarro 1863–1944 (2003)
- Genz, M. D. A History of the Eragny Press 1894–1914 (2004)
- Jenkins, D. F. and Bonett, H. Lucien Pissarro 1863–1944, February 2011, in Helena Bonett, Ysanne Holt, Jennifer Mundy (eds.), The Camden Town Group in Context, Tate (2012)
- Meadmore, W. S. Lucien Pissarro un coeur simple (1962)
- Pissarro, C. Camille Pissarro, Lettres à son fils Lucien, ed. J. Rewald (Editions Albin Michel, Paris 1950) [English translation: 'Camille Pissarro, Letters to his son Lucien']
- Pissarro, C. Correspondance de Camille Pissarro, ed. J. Bailly-Herzberg (5 vols., Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1980 & Editions du Valhermeil, Paris, 1986–1991) ISBN 2-905684-35-6
- Pissarro, L. The letters of Lucien to Camille Pissarro 1883–1903, ed. A. Thorold (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York & Oakleigh, 1993) ISBN 0-521-39034-6
- Reed, N. Pissarro in West London (Lilburne Press 1997) ISBN 1 901167 02 X
- Reed, N. Pissarro in Essex (Lilburne Press 1992) ISBN 0 9515258 4 0
- Thorold, A. A Catalogue of the oil paintings of Lucien Pissarro (1983)
- Urbanelli, L. The wood engravings of Lucien Pissarro ... (1994)
- Whiteley, J. (ed). Ashmolean Museum, Lucien Pissarro in England: the Eragny Press 1895–1914, (2011)
External links
- 99 artworks by or after Lucien Pissarro at the Art UK site
- An artwork by Lucien Pissarro at the Ben Uri site
- Works by Lucien Pissarro at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Lucien Pissarro at Internet Archive
- Works
- Signac, 1863–1935, a fully digitized exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries, which contains material on Pissarro (see index)