Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary
(b. 1963)

Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Roger Howard at Ladywood

Acrylic, oil and gold powder on canvas
100 x 100 cm (39 ³/₈ x 39 ³/₈ inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Tu porteras chance

Oil and gold on canvas
90 x 210 cm (35 ³/₈ x 82 ⁵/₈ inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Everything you Touch Turns to Gold

Acrylic and gold powder on canvas
146 x 114 cm (57.48 x 44.88 inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

One Day

Oil on canvas
146 x 114 cm (57.48 x 44.88 inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Ontology of Love (To my Muse)

Acrylic and resin on canvas
65 x 81 cm (25 ⁵/₈ x 31 ⁷/₈ inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

J't'entends plus (I can't hear you ..... anymore)

Red pigment, black acrylic, gold powder on canvas
100 x 70 cm (39.37 x 27.56 inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Dreams come true

Acrylic, pigment and gold powder on canvas
100 x 75 cm (39 ³/₈ x 29 ¹/₂ inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Abstract Composition in Blue & Gold 2

Acrylic and gold on canvas
61 x 50 cm (24.02 x 19.69 inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Gold Charlotte

Mixed media and gold leaf on canvas
102 x 76 cm (40 ¹/₈ x 29 ⁷/₈ inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Tu es matinale aujourd’hui

Blue and gold acrylic and glitter on canvas
80 x 59.5 cm (31.50 x 23.43 inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

I Love You

Acrylic and gold on canvas
61 x 50 cm (24 x 19 ³/₄ inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Maureen and I

Acrylic and glitter on canvas
149 x 126 cm (58 ⁵/₈ x 49 ⁵/₈ inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

For I have provided for myself a King among his sons

Acrylic and glitters on canvas
70 x 70 cm (27 ¹/₂ x 27 ¹/₂ inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

I Love You

Acrylic and glitters on canvas
80 x 90 cm (31 ¹/₂ x 35 ³/₈ inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Brave - Vigorous - Manful

Black and red acrylic, red glitter
152 x 126.5 cm (59 ⁷/₈ x 49 ³/₄ inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Memories

Oil on canvas
120 x 60 cm (47 ¹/₄ x 23 ⁵/₈ inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Humility

Oil and diamond dust on canvas
120 x 100 cm (47.24 x 39.37 inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Audace

Oil and glitter on canvas
56 x 40.5 cm (22.05 x 16 inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Art Meets Something but We're not Quite Sure What it is

Acrylic, gold leaf and resin on canvas
97.4 x 130 cm (38 ³/₈ x 51 ¹/₈ inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Rhino sauvage sous la pluie, ta force ma taille

Acrylic, oil and resin on canvas
140.5 x 114 cm (55 ¹/₄ x 44 ⁷/₈ inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Blind folding

Red pigment, black acrylic, gold powder on canvas
160 x 120 cm (62.99 x 47.24 inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

And-Lia

Acrylic and gold powder on canvas
100 x 70 cm (39.37 x 27.56 inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Liberté Interdite

Acrylic on canvas
115.5 x 85.5 cm (45.47 x 33.66 inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Hyde Park Corner

Acrylic and silver powder on canvas
100 x 70 cm (39 ³/₈ x 27 ¹/₂ inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Mains Gantées Cachées

Acrylic and silver dust on canvas
114.3 x 83.82 cm (45 x 33 inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Libellule

Acrylic and silver dust on canvas
35 x 27 cm (13.78 x 10.63 inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

C’est moi qui te capture et qui te garde dans mes bras

Acrylic on canvas
89 x 59.5 cm (35.04 x 23.43 inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Thank you, Dotahn

Tempera, watercolour and gold leaf and powder on paper
26 x 17 cm (10 ¹/₄ x 6 ³/₄ inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Au jardin du Luxembourg

Mixed media on paper
22.5 x 17.5 cm (8 ⁷/₈ x 6 ⁷/₈ inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

I can hear the birds

Mixed media on paper
21.5 x 14.5 cm (8 ¹/₂ x 5 ³/₄ inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Pink and Blue

Tempera and gold on paper
15.1 x 9.9 cm (6 x 3 ⁷/₈ inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Les perruches de Kiki

Mixed media on paper
16 x 13 cm (6 ¹/₄ x 5 ¹/₈ inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Blue and Pink

Tempera and gold on paper
15 x 10.2 cm (5 ⁷/₈ x 4 inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

My Child

Oil, gold paint, glitter and pencil on paper
13 x 15 cm (5 ¹/₈ x 5 ⁷/₈ inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Stiletto 1

Oil and diamond dust on canvas
22 x 16 cm (8.66 x 6.30 inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Step into Life

Watercolour, ink and gold on paper
21.8 x 29.5 cm (8 ⁵/₈ x 11 ⁵/₈ inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

All day and all night

Acrylic and silver paint on paper
23 x 30 cm (9 x 11 ³/₄ inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Cleopatra, Mistress of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony

Oil and gold leaf on canvas
100 x 100 cm (39 ³/₈ x 39 ³/₈ inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Green Bodies

Tempera and gold paint on paper
23 x 30 cm (9 x 11 ³/₄ inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Sunny Side Up

Tempera, ink and silver paint on paper
21.5 x 28 cm (8 ¹/₂ x 11 inches)
Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

Abstract Composition

Tempera and silver paint on paper
20 x 27 cm (7.87 x 10 ⁵/₈ inches)

Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary

biography

Lélia Pissarro is a contemporary French artist and the youngest daughter of H.Claude Pissarro. Though born in the city, she was raised in Clécy, Normandy, in the care of her grandparents Paulémile and Yvonne Pissarro, a childhood defined by colour, paint and studio life. Sitting beside her grandfather at the easel, she absorbed Impressionist and Post-Impressionist technique directly from the family line stretching back to Camille Pissarro. Her talent developed early and she famously sold her first painting to dealer Wally Findlay at the age of four.

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

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