By Orovida Pissarro
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Exercising Ponies by Orovida Camille Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on board
101.5 x 76 cm (40 x 30 inches)
Signed and dated lower right Orovida 1954
Provenance
Estate of Orovida Pissarro
With John Bensusan-Butt, cousin of the artist
Sotheby's London, 12th October 1988
G Hassell, 25th November 1988
With John Noott, 10th June 1992
Literature
K L Erickson, Orovida Pissarro: Painter and Print-Maker with A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, (doctoral thesis), Oxford, 1992, Appendices, no. 161 (illustrated)
Exhibitions
London, Bowmore Gallery, Women in Art 1850-1989, 2nd-11th November 1989
Fort Lauderdale, Museum of Art, Camille Pissarro and his Descendants, January-April 2000, no.123
This work was included in the above important museum exhibition and a catalogue of the Fort Lauderdale museum show will be included with this painting.
Biography
Orovida Camille Pissarro, the only child of Lucien and Esther Pissarro, was the first woman in the Pissarro family to become a professional artist and the first Pissarro of her generation to take up painting. Born in Epping, England, in 1893, she lived and worked predominantly in London, where she was a prominent member of several British arts clubs and societies.
She first learned to paint in the Impressionist style from her father and, after a brief period of formal study with Walter Sickert in 1913, she renounced formal art schooling.
Throughout her career, Orovida always remained outside mainstream British art movements. Much to Lucien's disappointment, she soon turned away from naturalistic painting and developed an unusual style that combined elements of Japanese, Chinese, Persian and Indian art. Her rejection of Impressionism, which, for the Pissarro family, was a way of life, and her simultaneous decision to drop her famous last name and use simply Orovida as a nom de peintre, reflected a desire for independence and distance from the family legacy, of which she nevertheless remained proud.
Orovida's most distinctive works are her paintings from the 1920s...
Category
1950s Modern Paintings