Lucien Pissarro was a French painter, printmaker, wood engraver., and oldest son of famed French Impressionist Camille Pissarro. Shown here are two works available at the Westport River Gallery. He was born in Paris and studied with his father, Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro. Lucien began his career as a landscape painter, but by the 1880s, he became interested in woodcuts and wood engravings. In 1884-1890, he worked for the printer Manzi. His works employ techniques of Impressionism and its successor, Neo-impressionism. The correspondence between Camille and Lucien Pissarro is an important document of the Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist movements. In 1886, he participated in the 8th Impressionist exhibition with ten paintings and graphic works. He was one of the first to join the Neo-Impressionist movement, and exhibited at the first Salon des Indépendants.
In 1888, he exhibited with the avant-garde group Les Vingt in Brussels. From 1890, he lived in London, where he established friendly contacts with the Pre-Raphaelites and plein-air painters.In 1894, he founded the Eragny Press (the name comes from a place near Dieppe), which played a significant role in the development of European book art. Two years later, he left the Societe des Indépendants, and from 1904 exhibited at the New English Art Club, and later with the Fitzroy Street Group. In 1911, he became a co-founder of the Camden Town Group.In 1919, he formed the Monarro Group with J.B. Manson as the London Secretary and Theo 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. He married Esther Bensusan. Their only child, Orovida, was also an artist. Lucien Pissarro died in London in 1944.
