Lucien Pissarro

See also: Pissarro

Artist painter French, born with Paris in 1863 and died with London in 1944.

Biography

Oldest son of the impressionist painter Camille Pissarro and of Julie Vellay. Fleeing the war Free-Prussia, the family moves with London in 1870 to return to Louveciennes in June 1871 then quickly to Pontoise. Lucien grows surrounded of the friends of his father - Cézanne, Manet and Monet in particular - and, encouraged in this direction, starts to draw and paint.

He begins his career as a painter landscape designer. In the years 1880, it is interested in the Sculpture and the Gravure on wood and works between 1884 and 1890 for the printer Manzi.

In 1886 it takes part with his/her father in the 8th Impressionist Exposition with 10 paintings, largely influenced by its friendships with Paul Signac and Georges Seurat. One of the first artists to affirm Neo-impressionist movement , it exposes to the first Salon of Independent the, then in 1888 with Brussels with the troop of avant-garde the Twenty.

In 1890 it leaves for the the United Kingdom and Citoyen in 1916 becomes about it . There, it binds friendship with the Pre-Raphaelites and the painters of Plein-air. In 1894 it assembles a publisher, the Eragny Close (of the name of Eragny on Epte, the village of his/her father close to Dieppe), which will play a big role in the development of the European edition of art.

In 1896 it leaves the Société of Independent the and, starting from 1904, it will expose to the New English Art Club then with the Fitzroy Street Group. In 1911, he becomes the cofounder of the group of Camden and, in 1919, of that of Monarro, which strongly contributed to the propagation of the Impressionnisme to the the United Kingdom.

The regular correspondence that it will maintain with his father will remain an important document of the Impressionnistes movements and Néo-Impressionniste S.

Referred works

(incomplete list)
  • the church of Gisors. 1888. Oil on fabric. 50 X 73 cm. Museum of Orsay, Paris, France.
  • the house of the deaf woman. 1888. Oil on fabric. 58 X 72 cm. Museum of Orsay, Paris, France.
  • the plowman. Engraving on wood according to Camille Pissarro. 12 X 17 cm.
  • Nightingale Farm, Langham (Essex). Oil on fabric. 33 X 47 cm. Stern Pissarro Gallery, London, the United Kingdom.
  • Lane Head Farm, Brough. Oil on fabric. 50 X 64 cm. Stern Pissarro Gallery, London, the United Kingdom.
  • The Pool, Blackpool (Devon). Oil on fabric. 65 X 52 cm. Stern Pissarro Gallery, London, the United Kingdom.
  • The Cyder Saw-tooth (Blackpool, Devon). Oil on fabric. 65 X 54 cm. Stern Pissarro Gallery, London, the United Kingdom.
  • Rye from Cadborough. Pencil and watercolour. 19 X25 cm. Stern Pissarro Gallery, London, the United Kingdom.
  • Acton. Pencil and watercolour. 9 X 12 cm. Stern Pissarro Gallery, London, the United Kingdom.
  • Fishpond. Pencil and watercolour. 12 X 18 cm. Stern Pissarro Gallery, London, the United Kingdom.
  • the Hoop. Watercolour. 16 X 20 cm. Stern Pissarro Gallery, London, the United Kingdom.
  • Hansom Cab. 1886/88. Etching. 6 X 10 cm. Stern Pissarro Gallery, London, the United Kingdom.
  • Coffee of Province no.II. 1888. Etching. 10 X 13 cm. Stern Pissarro Gallery, London, the United Kingdom.

External bonds

  • Lucien Pissarro in Artcyclopedia

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