Paul Emile Pissarro (1884-1972), French
Oil on canvas (21 1/4" x 27 3/4")
Aux Bords du Noircan
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Paul Emile Pissarro (1884-1972), French
Oil on canvas (25 1/4" x 20 1/2")
Fermiere a Cantepie
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Paul Emile Pissarro (1884-1972)

Paulemile was the fifth and youngest son of Camille Pissarro, born in Eragny a mere 30km from Giverny, home of his father's closest friend, Claude Monet. He was 19 years old when his father died. And, as he grew older, it was to Monet that Paulemile gravitated, adopting him both as a father figure, teacher, and friend. And it was Monet, as much or more than his father, who was to influence his art as the youngest Pissarro yearned to follow in his father's footsteps. Paulemile exhibited for the first time in the 1905 Salon des Independants. The entry was an Impressionist landscape entitled Bords de l'Epte a Eragny. But, like most young artists Paulemile struggled. It was a struggle his mother recognised all too well, and a life she hated, she encouraged him to give up his art. For a time, Paulemile worked as an auto mechanic and test driver, later as a lace and textile designer. His work allowed him virtually no time to paint.

Lucien, his older brother asked him to send some watercolours. Perhaps because of the Pissarro name, the work quickly sold to British collectors. Paulemile quit the lace factory. He became quickly immensely popular, especially in England.

The 1920s and 1930s were to be the strongest period in Paulemile Pissarro's painting career. In 1930 he divorced his first wife and married a second. They purchased a home near Clecy on the Orne River in the area of hills and valleys known as Swiss Normandy. There they raised three children - two sons and a daughter. His oldest son, Hugues-Claude also became a painter. In 1967, Paulemile Pissarro had his first one-man show in the United States at the Wally Findlay Galleries in New York, which led to wide recognition and success in this country.

Source: HumanitiesWeb.org