Orovida Camille Pissarro

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Orovida Camille Pissarro or just Orovida (born October 8, 1893 in Epping (Essex) , United Kingdom , † August 8, 1968 in London ) was a British painter and etcher . She comes from the French artist family Pissarro .

For most of her career she distanced herself from the Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist styles of her father Lucien Pissarro and her grandfather Camille Pissarro . Her painting technique was influenced by Chinese and other Asian art, but both influences were noticeable in her later works.

Life

Orovida Camille Pissarro was the only child of the French artist Lucien Pissarro, who had settled in Great Britain in 1890 with his wife Esther, née Bensusan. They named their daughter after Esther's aunt. Her uncles, including Georges Henri Pissarro , Félix Pissarro and Ludovic Rodolphe Pissarro, as well as other relatives, were also artists of the Pissarro family . Orovida showed her talent from a young age; her father said it was "in her blood". Her grandfather also praised the five-year-old Orovida's drawings. Her father gave the teenage Orovida lessons in oil painting and instructed them in impressionist painting techniques. Lucien had limited her palette to just five colors, her self-portrait should serve as an example. Her mother, who also had an artistic education, felt that being an artist was too financially insecure and insisted that Orovida study music. However, her daughter's interest in etchings and the prospect of an income from them helped allay her mother's concerns.

In 1913 Orovida briefly studied with the painter Walter Sickert before she decided to forego formal artistic training. In her twenties, she turned her back on Impressionist painting and developed an unusual decorative style inspired by Chinese , Japanese , Persian, and Indian art , much to her father's disappointment. An exhibition on Chinese painting in the British Museum in London in 1924 made a deep impression on the artist. The desire to distance herself from the strong Impressionist legacy of her family was also expressed by dropping her surname. From then on she called herself Orovida . Although she distanced herself from her family name, she was proud of the legacy of the Pissarro family. She saw impressionism as well as all western art as "photography", while eastern art allowed more leeway for its own independence. She drew her inspiration exclusively from works that she could examine in museums or elsewhere; she had never traveled to the Far East. Orovida used diluted gouache or tempera to paint on silk, linen, paper and gold leaf. Both her pictures and her etchings show mainly Asian subjects, which often consisted of animals, especially tigers and horses. Another favorite subject was Mongolian horsemen hunting wild animals; others included Persian princes and African dancers.

After her father's death in 1944, Orovida took up oil painting again, although her style and choice of subjects had changed significantly. Her work became more naturalistic and approached the Pissarro tradition again. She gave her Asian themes a more substantial, European look. Her pictures now resembled dried frescoes . During this time she created portraits of relatives, friends, royalty, and especially pictures of cats of all kinds.

Orovida was a prolific graphic artist with around 8,000 prints from 107 etched plates. Her mother had established a Pissarro family archive in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford , and Orovida had done a lot to expand it. She was the first female professional artist in the Pissarro family and the first artist of the generation of Camille's grandchildren. Orovida Camille Pissarro lived in London for most of her life. She was never part of the mainstream art movement in Great Britain. The artist remained unmarried and died on August 8, 1968.

Works (selection)

  • The Archer's Return, 1931 (Ashmolean Museum)
  • The Tiger Hunt, 1932 (Ashmolean Museum)
  • Dora Clarke, 1936 (Ashmolean Museum)
  • Zebras Drinking, 1937 (Manchester City Art Galleries)
  • Spring, 1938 (Ashmolean Museum)
  • Winter, 1940 (Ashmolean Museum)
  • Lebeide with Sulin, 1943 (Royal Academy of Arts)
  • Little Girl with a Cat, 1948 (Ashmolean Museum)
  • Cats, 1959 (Town Hall of London Borough of Camden )
  • Leopard and Family (Portsmouth Museum of Art)

Exhibitions

In 1921, Orovida Pissarro showed her work in a joint exhibition with the French painter Marie Laurencin . She also exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal Society of British Artists . Her work has also been shown in solo exhibitions in London and North America.

The Ashmolean Museum showed Orovidas pictures, etchings and drawings in a memorial exhibition in 1969. In 1973 the Leicester Gallery organized the Three Generations of the Pissarro Family exhibition . Orovida was already represented in an exhibition of the same name in 1943.

Her work can now be seen in the collections of the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, as well as the Oxford Ashmolean Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art , the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the San Diego Museum of Art .

literature

  • Will Grohmann : Pissarro, Orovida . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 110 .
  • Pissarro, Orovida . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 596 .
  • CA Nicholson: List of the Etchings and Aquatints of Orovida. PCQ XIII, 1926, pp. 198-202; expanded in: Orovida, Supplementary list of Etchings & Aquatints , PCQ XXVII, 1940, pp. 98-105 (English).
  • Ashmolean Museum: A catalog of the etchings and aquatints by Orovida. 1969 (English).
  • Kenneth Guichard: British Etchers 1850-1940. Robin Garton, London 1977 (English).
  • Friends: Elsie Henderson (1880-1967) and Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968). Michael Parkin Ltd, London 1985 (preface by Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton, English).

Web links

Websites with images of portraits or works by the artist:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Notices Under the Trustee Act, 1925, p. 27 In: The London Gazette . 29 Aug 1968, p. 9487 (English, thegazette.co.uk ).
  2. ^ Christopher Lloyd: Studies on Camille Pissarro. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., London 1986, ISBN 0-7102-0928-2 , p. 62 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c Stern Pissarro Gallery: Pissarro Family. (English, pissarro.art ).
  4. ^ A b c Gladys Engel Lang, Kurt Lang: Etched in Memory: The Building and Survival of Artistic Reputation. University of Illinois Press, 1990, ISBN 0-252-07028-3 , p. 97.
  5. ^ A b c d Julia Weiner: Artists in Britain: 1700–1940. In: Jewish Women's Archive , 1996 (English, jwa.org ).
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g Jim Lane: Orovida Pissarro (English, April 7, 2001 humanitiesweb.org ).
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Stern Pissarro Gallery: Orovida Camille Pissarro (1893–1968). (English, pissarro.art ).
  8. ^ Orovida Camille Pissarro (1893–1968): Self-portrait. In: Ashmolean Museum (English, ( page no longer available , search in web archives: ashmolean.org )).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ashmolean.org
  9. ↑ a b c d Camille Orovida Pissarro (Biographical details). In: British Museum ( britishmuseum.org ).
  10. ↑ Pissarro (Camille Orovida Pissarro) Orovida (1893–1968) In: British Council - Visual Arts (English, online ( Memento from February 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive )).
  11. ↑ a b c d Gladys Engel Lang, Kurt Lang: Etched in Memory: The Building and Survival of Artistic Reputation. University of Illinois Press, 1990, ISBN 0-252-07028-3 , pp. 333 and 334 (English).
  12. ↑ Orovida Camille Pissarro (1893-1968): The Archer's Return In: Ashmolean Museum (English, ( page no longer available , search in web archives: ashmolean.org )).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ashmolean.org
  13. ^ Gladys Engel Lang, Kurt Lang: Etched in Memory: The Building and Survival of Artistic Reputation. University of Illinois Press, 1990, ISBN 0-252-07028-3 , p. 307 (English).
  14. ↑ a b Louise Kosman: Orovida Pissarro. In: Louise Kosman Modern British Art (English, louisekosman.com ).
personal data
SURNAME Pissarro, Orovida Camille
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Orovida
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Epping (Essex) , United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1968
Place of death London