Lucien Pissarro, 1863–1944, French, active in Britain (from 1890)
Title:
Blackpool Vale, Devon
Date:
1921
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
30 × 34 1/2 inches (76.2 × 87.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower left: "[monogram] 1921"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
Copyright Status:
Copyright Undetermined
Accession Number:
B2009.9.3
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
grass | trees | hills | houses | landscape
Associated Places:
Europe | England | United Kingdom | Devon
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)
Gallery Label:
Lucien Pissarro was the eldest son of the impressionist painter Camille Pissarro and was, together with Walter Sickert, a friend and admirer of Edgar Degas, a living link between the very different worlds of the French impressionist painters and that of Camden Town. He settled permanently in London in 1890; married an Englishwoman, Esther Bensusan; and until 1900, concentrated mainly on wood-engraving for illustrated books published by their own Eragny Press—which was named after the location of his father’s studio at Éragny-sur-Epte, on the northwestern outskirts of Paris. Pissarro had painted regularly in Devon since spring 1913, and in 1916 he became a British citizen. In 1919, Frank Rutter, the art critic for the Sunday Times and a proponent of the impressionists, declared that Pissarro was among a handful of artists who “will give English painting European importance.” Gallery label for A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)