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From our special exhibition The Enchanted Garden, Lucien Pissarro's 'The Fairy' depicts Coopersale Hall in Epping, Essex. The strange shape of topiary lends a magical atmosphere to the scene and the brightly lit girl seen between two straight tree trunks appears as unreal as a fairy.
📷 Lucien Pissarro, The Fairy, 1894 © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
| Lucien Pissarro | |
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Lucien Pissarro Reading, by J.B. Mansonc.1913
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| Born | 20 February 1863 Paris, France |
| Died | 10 July 1944 (aged 81) Hewood, Dorset, England |
| Nationality | French |
| Known for | Landscape painting |
| Movement | Impressionism Neo-Impressionism |
| Spouse(s) | Esther Levi Bensusan |
Lucien Pissarro (20 February 1863 – 10 July 1944) was a landscape painter, printmaker, wood engraver and designer and printer of fine books. His landscape paintings employ techniques of Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism, but he also exhibited with Les XX. Apart from his landscapes he painted a few still lifes and family portraits. Until 1890 he worked in France, but thereafter was based in Britain.
Biography[edit]
Pissarro was born on 20 February 1863 in Paris.[1] He was the oldest of seven children of the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro and his wife Julie (née Vellay).[1] He studied with his father, and was influenced by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac.
In 1886, he exhibited at the last of the Impressionist exhibitions.[1] From 1886 to 1894 he exhibited with the Salon des Independents.
He first visited Britain in 1870-1 during the Franco-Prussian War. He returned in 1883-4, and in 1890 settled permanently in London.[1] On 10 August 1892 he married Esther Levi Bensusan in Richmond.[1] Whilst renting a cottage at Epping, Essex on 8 October 1893 their daughter and only child, Orovida Camille Pissarro, was born. Orovida also became an artist.[1] He met Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon, and contributed woodcuts to their Dial. In 1894 he founded the Eragny Press[3] and with his wife and illustrated and printed books until the press was closed in 1914. In 1897 the family moved to 62 Bath Road in Stamford Brook, Chiswick.[1] In 1903 he designed the type
Eragny Press – National Library of Scotland Blog
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Lucien Pissarro was the eldest son of the Impressionist painter, Camille Pissarro. This pleasingly informative exhibition, on display in a single large gallery at the Ashmolean, tells the story of how Lucien, packed off to England to rid him of the perennial itch to be an artist did not quite do what his mother so fervently desired.
Once in England, Lucien fell in with a group of artists who were adherents of William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement. In the 1890s, Morris had founded the Kelmscott Press to produce exquisite, hand-made books. Lucien and his friends wanted to do something similar, and so for the next 20 years he laboured over the spasmodic production of 32 hand-crafted books with his wife, Esther.
This exhibition is extremely well documented and well presented. Most of the books are here, open for us to scrutinise how he set about solving the problem of how to marry illustration with text to pleasing effect, and there is much additional material too – photographs of the family, preparatory drawings and Lucien's sets of engraving tools.face Brook Type.[4]
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 Camden Town Group of artists. In 1919,[5] he formed the Monarro Group with J.B. Manson as the London Secretary and Théo van Rysselberghe as the Paris secretary, aiming to show artists inspired by Impressionist painters, Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. The group ceased three years later.[6]
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 Royal Academy in London. He died on 10 July 1944, in Hewood, Dorset.
Camille was worried about what Lucien would turn into once he was settled over here. Would he remain true to Nature as the Impressionists had captured it naively, on the wing?
A bit of yes and a bit of no. The fact is that it would have been extremely difficult to capture fleeting impressions of the effect of wind or light on a woodblock print.
Lucien's books ranged widely in theme and time. He produced a selection of the fairy tales of Charles Perrault and even an edition of Milton's "Areopagitica". Some of these books are enormously intricate, exhausting labours of love. After the press closed, he went back to painting, somewhat in the Impressionist manner. Not too badly infected by John Bull after all then.
To 13 March (01865 278002)
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