Ludovic-Rodolphe Pissarro, also known as Ludovic-Rodo, was Camille Pissarro’s fourth son. In 1894, at the age 16, he published his first wood engravings and by 1898 he was sharing a studio in Montmartre with his bother Georges. The impact of Camille’s art and teaching on Ludovic-Rodo was considerable, but he also closely aligned himself with artists like Toulouse-Lautrec, Maurice de Vlaminick and Raoul Dufy as well as Alfred Sisley.
In 1905 he even participated in the Fauve exhibition at the Salon des Indépendants. Like his brother Lucien, Ludovic-Rodo spent a considerable amount of time in London, and many of his paintings are of familiar London landmarks. Like his father, he often painted views of the city from upper-floor windows, so that he was somewhat removed from the bustle of traffic and pedestrians below. In London, along with Lucien, he established the Monarro Group in 1915, with the aim of exhibiting work by contemporary artists who were inspired by Impressionism. Click to see other pictures by the Pissarro Family.
Ludovic-Rodo is perhaps best remembered for undertaking the cataloging of his father’s ouvre. The project took him more than twenty years to complete and resulted in the 1939 two-volume publication that is, to this day, a standard text on Camille Pissarro. He told Lucien that the compilation of 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.”