Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro, Colleague of Sisley, Dufy

Ludovic-Rodolphe Pissarro, also known as Ludovic-Rodo, was Camille Pissarro’s fourth son. In 1894, at age 16, he published his first wood engravings and by 1898 was sharing a studio in Montmartre with his bother Georges. The impact of Camille’s art and teaching on Ludovic was considerable, but he also closely aligned himself with artists like Toulouse-Lautrec, Maurice de Vlaminick and Raoul Dufy and Alfred Sisley. Rodo is remembered for cataloging his father’s ouvre, which took him more than twenty years and resulted in the 1939 publication that is  a standard text on Camille Pissarro. He told brother Lucien the catalog was a fascinating task which revealed, “the work of the artist, its highs and lows, its progress as a whole through acquired experience.” Westport River Gallery has about 6 of his works.