Lélia Pissarro, Contemporary
(b. 1963)
Roger Howard at Ladywood
100 x 100 cm (39 ³/₈ x 39 ³/₈ inches)
Tu porteras chance
90 x 210 cm (35 ³/₈ x 82 ⁵/₈ inches)
Everything you Touch Turns to Gold
146 x 114 cm (57.48 x 44.88 inches)
Ontology of Love (To my Muse)
65 x 81 cm (25 ⁵/₈ x 31 ⁷/₈ inches)
J't'entends plus (I can't hear you ..... anymore)
100 x 70 cm (39.37 x 27.56 inches)
Dreams come true
100 x 75 cm (39 ³/₈ x 29 ¹/₂ inches)
Abstract Composition in Blue & Gold 2
61 x 50 cm (24.02 x 19.69 inches)
Gold Charlotte
102 x 76 cm (40 ¹/₈ x 29 ⁷/₈ inches)
Tu es matinale aujourd’hui
80 x 59.5 cm (31.50 x 23.43 inches)
Maureen and I
149 x 126 cm (58 ⁵/₈ x 49 ⁵/₈ inches)
For I have provided for myself a King among his sons
70 x 70 cm (27 ¹/₂ x 27 ¹/₂ inches)
I Love You
80 x 90 cm (31 ¹/₂ x 35 ³/₈ inches)
Brave - Vigorous - Manful
152 x 126.5 cm (59 ⁷/₈ x 49 ³/₄ inches)
Humility
120 x 100 cm (47.24 x 39.37 inches)
Art Meets Something but We're not Quite Sure What it is
97.4 x 130 cm (38 ³/₈ x 51 ¹/₈ inches)
Rhino sauvage sous la pluie, ta force ma taille
140.5 x 114 cm (55 ¹/₄ x 44 ⁷/₈ inches)
Blind folding
160 x 120 cm (62.99 x 47.24 inches)
And-Lia
100 x 70 cm (39.37 x 27.56 inches)
Liberté Interdite
115.5 x 85.5 cm (45.47 x 33.66 inches)
Hyde Park Corner
100 x 70 cm (39 ³/₈ x 27 ¹/₂ inches)
Mains Gantées Cachées
114.3 x 83.82 cm (45 x 33 inches)
Libellule
35 x 27 cm (13.78 x 10.63 inches)
C’est moi qui te capture et qui te garde dans mes bras
89 x 59.5 cm (35.04 x 23.43 inches)
Thank you, Dotahn
26 x 17 cm (10 ¹/₄ x 6 ³/₄ inches)
Au jardin du Luxembourg
22.5 x 17.5 cm (8 ⁷/₈ x 6 ⁷/₈ inches)
I can hear the birds
21.5 x 14.5 cm (8 ¹/₂ x 5 ³/₄ inches)
Pink and Blue
15.1 x 9.9 cm (6 x 3 ⁷/₈ inches)
Les perruches de Kiki
16 x 13 cm (6 ¹/₄ x 5 ¹/₈ inches)
Blue and Pink
15 x 10.2 cm (5 ⁷/₈ x 4 inches)
My Child
13 x 15 cm (5 ¹/₈ x 5 ⁷/₈ inches)
Stiletto 1
22 x 16 cm (8.66 x 6.30 inches)
Step into Life
21.8 x 29.5 cm (8 ⁵/₈ x 11 ⁵/₈ inches)
All day and all night
23 x 30 cm (9 x 11 ³/₄ inches)
Cleopatra, Mistress of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony
100 x 100 cm (39 ³/₈ x 39 ³/₈ inches)
Green Bodies
23 x 30 cm (9 x 11 ³/₄ inches)
Sunny Side Up
21.5 x 28 cm (8 ¹/₂ x 11 inches)
Abstract Composition
20 x 27 cm (7.87 x 10 ⁵/₈ inches)
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