Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary
b. 1963
One Day
146 x 114 cm (57 ½ x 44 ⅞ inches)
Signed and titled on the reverse
Executed in 2008
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary
biography
After returning to Paris at eleven, she began to move beyond classical family tradition, encouraged by her father to experiment with new ideas, surfaces and subject matter. By fourteen she was already exhibiting, submitting early abstract works to the Salon de la Jeune Peinture under the pseudonym Rachel Manzana Pomié. Studies in fine art, psychology, and later oil-painting conservation broadened her technical depth, while teaching posts in Paris helped shape her distinctive studio approach.
In 1988 she moved to London, where her work began shifting further towards experimentation, a path that intensified after 2005 when, following recovery from cancer, she transitioned decisively into modern and abstract art. From this point her practice became increasingly innovative: series exploring circles, animal forms and minimal composition led her toward abstraction, reduction and material complexity. She introduced encaustic, wax, gold leaf and layered pigment to produce textured surfaces and luminous colour fields that mark a clear evolution to her family’s plein-air heritage.
Lélia has exhibited globally and most recently, her abstract oeuvre formed a key component of Traces of Giverny at Stern Pissarro Gallery, where the exhibition highlighted both her lineage and her evolution into a distinctly modern voice. Today she works from her London studio by Richmond Park, maintaining a practice that moves between plein-air roots and contemporary experimentation. Alongside painting she is a partner at Stern Pissarro Gallery and serves as the official expert for Paulémile, Manzana and Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro.
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary
biography
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