Lélia Pissarro

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Lélia Olga Sabine Edwige Pissarro or Lélia Pissarro-Stern (born July 27, 1963 in Paris , France ) is a French painter and gallery owner . She comes from the artist family Pissarro .

Life

As an artist

Lélia Pissarro is the great-granddaughter of the painter Camille Pissarro . In contrast to her brothers Joachim and Lionel , she did not grow up in Paris, but spent her childhood in the care of her grandparents Paul Émile Pissarro and his second wife Yvonne Beaupel in Clécy in the Calvados department , where she learned impressionist techniques from the age of four and Neo-Impressionist painting was taught. She sold her first picture to the New York gallery owner Wally Findlay. After the death of her grandfather in 1972, she stayed with her grandmother until 1974 and returned to her parents in Paris at the age of eleven , where her father Hugues Claude Pissarro took over the role of her teacher. She was the youngest exhibitor at an exhibition in the Salon de la jeune Peinture . At the age of fifteen she took part in an exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris. From 1978 she studied at the École supérieure des beaux-arts de Tours , where she dealt with conceptual art , among other things . At this time, she was expanding large, strongly gestural, abstract works of international style. She received instruction in restoration techniques at the Louvre in Paris . As with the painting “New River”, the subjects of her Impressionist works were often houses at the end of snow-covered streets, or similar idyllic subjects. She found her first job in Paris, where she worked as an art teacher. In 1984 she traveled to Israel, where she met her future husband, David Stern.

Lélia moved to London in 1988 . She took part in a series of exhibitions entitled "Pissarro - The Four Generations", in which her works, together with those of her great-grandfather, grandfather and father in London, Tel Aviv, five museums in Japan and the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale in Florida ( 2000) were shown. In 2003 Lélia fell ill with breast cancer and had to undergo a double mastectomy . Lelia's more recent works, like the picture “Blindfolding”, show bold, generously laid out swaths of colors and gold pigments with which she tries to capture the effect of light on her canvases.

Family and gallery

The jointly by Lélia Pissarro and her husband David Stern run by the second generation Stern Pissarro Gallery in London's Mayfair in 1964 in Tel Aviv founded and is the late 19th on European painting and 20th century, spanning particularly on the work of four generations Pissarro -Family specializes.

“My two brothers and I painted with my father and grandfather. Every little child tries to please their parents. I enjoyed painting, or perhaps favors, more than my brothers and so I continued, ”said Lélia Pissarro. In contrast to family tradition, Lélia never stopped her three children Kalia (* 1989), Lyora (* 1991) and Dotahn (* 1996) to paint. Her daughter Lyora presented some of her work in 2014 in an exhibition entitled "Five Generations of Pissarro" at the Russell Collection Fine Art Gallery in Austin, Texas , in which works by eight members of the Pissarro family from 161 years were shown.

Works (selection)

painting

  • Stolen Kiss , 2006
  • Powers over Me , Taboos and Memories, 2007
  • Blindfolding , 2008
  • Horny Beast , 2008
  • Mysterious and Sexy , 2009
  • Un Dernier Meringue , 2009
  • empathy
  • New River
  • La belle ile de Re , 2011
  • In the plane
  • Paulémile, Lyora et moi

Publications

  • Lélia Pissarro: Four Seasons of the Mind. Catalogs. Stern Pissarro Gallery, London December 2004 / January 2005, 58 pp.
  • Lélia Pissarro: The Colors of Silence. Catalogs. 216 pp.

literature

  • Roger Clark, Lélia Pissarro: The colors of silence: conversations with Roger Clark
  • Lélia Pissarro & L'Atelier Artists. La Galerie, London 1993
  • Kristen Erickson: Pissarro - The Four Generations. (Pissarro, Camille, Lucien, Georges, Felix, Ludovic-Rodo, Paulemile, Orovida, H. Claude, and Lélia) , Stern Gallery, Tel Aviv 1994

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Library of Congress Control Number : nb2012001462 → online
  2. ^ Joachim Pissarro : Autobiographical Reflections and the Art World. In: The Brooklyn Rail of April 3, 2013, in English → online
  3. ↑ Paulémile Pissarro (1884–1972) In: Stern Pissarro Gallery, in English → online ( Memento from February 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ a b c Lelia Pissarro (b. 1963) In: Stern Pissarro Gallery, in English → online ( Memento from February 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ a b c d e Jim Lane: Lelia Pissarro. In: Art Now and Then, November 29, 2012, in English → online
  6. ↑ Exposition de 6 artistes expatriés. In: French Senate of February 10, 2015, in French → online (accessed February 10, 2015)
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Donald Miller: Four generations of Pissarro In: Pittsburg Post-Gazette of November 27, 2009, in English → online
  8. ↑ a b Sarah Sims: A Pissarro Original. In: Mail on Sunday of December 24, 2006, in English → online
  9. ^ Aimee Kligman: Five Generations of Pissarros in Art. In: Womenslens from July 1, 2007, online in English
  10. ↑ Lyora Pissarro-Stern: Artemis → online
  11. ↑ Laney Salisbury, Aly Sujo: Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art. Penguin, 2009, ISBN 1-101-10500-3 , 352 pp., In English → online
  12. ↑ Stern Pissarro Gallery In: The Society of London Art Dealers, in English → online
  13. ↑ Carlin Flora: Talent Dynasties. Some families pass talent and skill down the generations like monarchs pass a crown. in: Psychology Today from November 1, 2007, in English → online
  14. ↑ Kalia Pissarro-Stern: Lélia - Mother and artist → online
  15. ^ Russell Collection Fine Art Chosen as Exclusive Gallery to Premiere "Five Generations of Pissarro" Exhibit. In: Prweb of April 30, 2014, in English → online
  16. ↑ Artist Reception with Lyora Pissarro. In: Austin Way of June 7, 2014, in English → online
  17. ↑ Darlene Fiske: Russell Collection Fine Art Opens “Five Generations of Pissarro” Exhibition. In: The Austin Convention & Visitors Bureau, May 30, 2014, in English → online
personal data
SURNAME Pissarro, Lélia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pissarro-Stern, Lélia; Pissarro, Lélia Olga Sabine Edwige
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter and gallery owner
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris