Paulémile Pissarro
(1884 - 1972)

Paulémile Pissarro

Les Baigneuses

Oil on canvas
89 x 116 cm (35 x 45 ⁵/₈ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Rivière Saulaie à Lyons-la-Forêt, Eure

Oil on canvas
60 x 73 cm (23 ⁵/₈ x 28 ³/₄ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Les Baigneuses

Oil on canvas
54 x 73 cm (21 ¹/₄ x 28 ³/₄ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Nature Morte

Oil on canvas
54.3 x 65.2 cm (21 ³/₈ x 25 ⁵/₈ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Genevieve et Ric et Rac

Oil on canvas
73 x 60 cm (28 ³/₄ x 23 ⁵/₈ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

L'Orne à la Chaize

Oil on canvas
60 x 73 cm (23 ⁵/₈ x 28 ³/₄ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Chemin du Pont de la Mousse

Oil on canvas
41 x 33 cm (16 ¹/₈ x 13 inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Pêcheur au bord de la rivière

Oil on canvas
54 x 65 cm (21 ¹/₄ x 25 ⁵/₈ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Chaumière sous la neige

Oil on isorel
35 x 27 cm (13 ³/₄ x 10 ⁵/₈ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

La Mare aux Saules

Oil on canvas
88.9 x 115.5 cm (35 x 45 ¹/₂ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Pecheur aux Bords de l'Orne

Oil on canvas
54 x 65 cm (21 ¹/₄ x 25 ⁵/₈ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Boatman on a boat

Oil on canvas
60 x 73 cm (23 ⁵/₈ x 28 ³/₄ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Bord de Riviere Soleil Couchant

Oil on canvas
46 x 55 cm (18 ¹/₈ x 21 ⁵/₈ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Paysage d'Hiver

Oil on canvas
54 x 65 cm (21 ¹/₄ x 25 ⁵/₈ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Les Iles à Cantepie

Oil on canvas
54 x 65 cm (21 ¹/₄ x 25 ⁵/₈ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

La Corderie et le Pain de Sucre

Oil on canvas
65 x 54 cm (25 ⁵/₈ x 21 ¹/₄ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Les deux arbres au bord de la rivière dans la forêt de Lyons

Oil on canvas
65 x 54 cm (25 ⁵/₈ x 21 ¹/₄ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

The boatman, Marais Poitevin

Oil on canvas
72 x 60 cm (28 ³/₈ x 23 ⁵/₈ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

La Chaumière et le ruisseau à Cantepie

Oil on canvas
51 x 65 cm (20 ¹/₈ x 25 ⁵/₈ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Anciennes Tanneries à Domfront

Oil on canvas
60.5 x 76.5 cm (23 ⁷/₈ x 30 ¹/₈ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

La Bevera, Sospel

Oil on canvas
46 x 55 cm (18 ¹/₈ x 21 ⁵/₈ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Bord de l'Orne

Oil on canvas
46 x 61 cm (18 ¹/₈ x 24 inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Le Noireau et les rochers de Pont Erambourg, Suisse Normande

Oil on canvas
46 x 61 cm (18 ¹/₈ x 24 inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Les bords de l'Orne

Oil on canvas
65 x 92 cm (25 ⁵/₈ x 36 ¹/₄ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

La Rivière

Oil on canvas
92 x 73 cm (36.22 x 28.74 inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

L'Arbre au Bord de l'Eau

Oil on canvas
46 x 55 cm (18 ¹/₈ x 21 ⁵/₈ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

L'Ile à Clécy

Oil on canvas
55 x 46 cm (21 ⁵/₈ x 18 ¹/₈ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Poirier en fleurs

Oil on canvas
46 x 61 cm (18 ¹/₈ x 24 inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Maison normande au pommier en fleurs

Oil on canvas
54 x 65 cm (21 ¹/₄ x 25 ⁵/₈ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Les arbres

Oil on canvas
60 x 72 cm (23 ⁵/₈ x 28 ³/₈ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Les Bords de l’Orne au Soleil Couchant

Oil on canvas
54 x 65 cm (21 ¹/₄ x 25 ⁵/₈ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Chemin de la Vallée

Oil on canvas
46 x 61 cm (18 ¹/₈ x 24 inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

La Rivière Orne et le Pain de Sucre

Oil on canvas
54 x 65 cm (21 ¹/₄ x 25 ⁵/₈ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Rivière et Saules

Oil on canvas
46.1 x 55.2 cm (18 ¹/₈ x 21 ³/₄ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Le Coup de Vent

Oil on canvas
65 x 92 cm (25.59 x 36.22 inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Un Chemin dans la Forêt

Pastel and charcoal on paper
24 x 31 cm (9 ¹/₂ x 12 ¹/₄ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

L'Ile des Oiseaux

Watercolour and charcoal on paper
23 x 31 cm (9.06 x 12 ¹/₄ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Paysage sous la neige

Watercolour and charcoal on paper
20 x 28 cm (7 ⁷/₈ x 11 inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Le lac en automne

Pastel and charcoal on paper
25 x 32.8 cm (9 ⁷/₈ x 12 ⁷/₈ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

River Eure, Lyons la Forêt

Watercolour and crayon on paper
31.5 x 48.5 cm (12 ³/₈ x 19 ¹/₈ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Les Nénuphars à Sorel

Watercolour and crayon on paper
32.5 x 50.3 cm (12 ³/₄ x 19 ³/₄ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Scène de rivière, près de Lyons-la-Forêt

Watercolour and crayon on paper
31.5 x 48.3 cm (12 ³/₈ x 19 inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Le marché aux bestiaux

Watercolour and ink on paper
23.7 x 31.2 cm (9 ³/₈ x 12 ¹/₄ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Port de Honfleur

Watercolour and crayon on paper
31.5 x 47.7 cm (12 ³/₈ x 18 ³/₄ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Assemblée sur le quai

Watercolour on paper
23 x 31 cm (9 x 12 ¹/₄ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Meules de foin

Graphite and coloured crayon on paper
19.5 x 25 cm (7 ⁵/₈ x 9 ⁷/₈ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

L'Église de Morgny-Eure

Watercolour and black crayon on paper
31.5 x 43.5 cm (12 ³/₈ x 17 ¹/₈ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Cantepie, Normandy

Pencil on paper
21 x 27 cm (8 ¹/₄ x 10 ⁵/₈ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Village in Normandy

Watercolour, ink and charcoal on paper
40 x 31.2 cm (15 ³/₄ x 12 ¹/₄ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Le corps de ferme

Watercolour, ink and charcoal on paper
29.7 x 46.8 cm (11 ³/₄ x 18 ³/₈ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Village au bord de l'Eau

Graphite on paper
32 x 23.5 cm (12 ⁵/₈ x 9 ¹/₄ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

L'Arbre

Graphite on paper
32 x 23.5 cm (12 ⁵/₈ x 9 ¹/₄ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Nature morte

Pencil on paper
19.5 x 26.5 cm (7 ⁵/₈ x 10 ³/₈ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Nature morte avec bouteilles et poireau

Black pencil on paper
26 x 19 cm (10 ¹/₄ x 7 ¹/₂ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Études sur Titu

Watercolour and pencil on paper
33.5 x 23.6 cm (13 ¹/₄ x 9 ¹/₄ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Etude d'un Rameur

Graphite on paper
27 x 20.2 cm (10.63 x 8 inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Hommes Pagayant

Graphite and charcoal on paper
27 x 20.3 cm (10 ⁵/₈ x 8 inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Yvonne Posant

Graphite on paper
32 x 23.5 cm (12 ⁵/₈ x 9 ¹/₄ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Yvonne debout

Pencil on paper
30.5 x 26 cm (12 x 10 ¹/₄ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Yvonne Assise

Graphite on paper
32 x 23.5 cm (12 ⁵/₈ x 9 ¹/₄ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Yvonne Jouant au Tennis

Graphite on paper
20.2 x 27 cm (8 x 10 ⁵/₈ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Etude d'Yvonne marchant

Graphite on paper
27 x 20.2 cm (10 ⁵/₈ x 8 inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Yvonne tenant une raquette de tennis

Graphite on paper
20.2 x 27 cm (8 x 10 ⁵/₈ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Jardin de la Villa à Brantôme

Etching
20.5 x 28.5 cm (8.07 x 11.22 inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

Camille Pissarro – d’après le plâtre de Polin

Etching
20.4 x 16.5 cm (8 x 6 ¹/₂ inches)
Paulémile Pissarro

L’Arc de Triomphe

Etching
19.2 x 24.8 cm (7 ¹/₂ x 9 ³/₄ inches)

Paulémile Pissarro

biography

Paulémile Pissarro was the youngest son of Camille Pissarro. He was born in Éragny in 1884 and grew up in the creative environment of the family home, where, encouraged by his father, he began drawing at an early age. His godfather was Claude Monet, who became his teacher and, after Camille's death in 1903, a guiding figure in his life.

Paulémile exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants for the first time in 1905. Although Camille had supported his wish to become an artist, his mother was anxious that he learn a more practical trade, and in 1908 he set aside painting to work as an automobile mechanic and test-driver, and later as a lace and textile designer, which left him little time to paint. He committed himself fully to painting only after Lucien invited him to take part in an exhibition in London. The successful sale of a number of watercolours he sent over encouraged him to leave the textile factory and pursue a career in art.

By the 1920s Paulémile was established as a Post-Impressionist artist in his own right, spending his summers away from Paris on painting trips with Kees van Dongen, Raoul Dufy, Maurice de Vlaminck and André Dunoyer de Segonzac. In 1922 he bought a house in Lyons la-Forêt, a village near Éragny and Giverny, where he settled with his first wife, Berthe Bennaiche. In these years he developed a form of Cubism indebted to Cézanne, whom he greatly admired, and painted the river Eure and its surrounding villages. He formed a close friendship with his neighbour, the Art Deco designer Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, who designed a studio for him adjacent to his house.

In 1930 he visited the Suisse Normande in the Calvados region, and was drawn in particular to the river Orne, which runs through the valley near the villages of Clécy and Saint-Rémy. The combination of rolling hills, open meadows and the calm river offered him a new source of inspiration. With his second wife, Yvonne Beaupel, he moved to Clécy in 1935, where he remained for the rest of his life. Two of their three children, H. Claude and Yvon, also became artists.

With his house backing on to the Orne, Paulémile began to use a boat as a floating studio, painting the still water from between the riverbanks. The influence of his godfather is evident here, particularly in his treatment of water, and he also applied Monet's lessons in horticulture to the creation of an abundant garden, which provided further motifs. Alongside his river landscapes he painted the neighbouring hay fields, snow scenes, interiors and still lifes.

In 1967 Paulémile held his first solo exhibition in the United States, at Wally Findlay Galleries in New York. It brought him wider recognition and a degree of professional success unusual among the Pissarro artists of his generation. Since his death in 1972 he has remained one of the best-known of Camille's sons.

Paulémile Pissarro

biography

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