Lélia Pissarro was born in Paris on 1963, the third child of the artist Hugues-Claude Pissarro and Katia, an art dealer.

Until the age of eleven, she was entrusted to the care of her grandparents, Paulémile Pissarro and his wife, Yvonne, in Clécy, Normandy. Paulémile nurtured her interest in drawing and painting, teaching her the fundamental Impressionist and Post-Impressionist techniques he had learned from his father and his brothers.

Lélia returned to Paris to live with her parents, and it was then that she had her first exhibition at the Salon de la Jeune Peinture. Hugues-Claude, whose style leaned toward conceptual art, took over from Paulémile as Lelia’s teacher, and consequently she practiced drawing on a daily basis. At fifteen, Lélia participated in an exhibition at the Luxembourg Museum in Paris. A year later, she enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Tours.

Lélia taught art at the Moria School in Paris and studied oil painting restoration under Madame De Pangalleria at the laboratory of the Louvre. She had solo exhibitions in Paris, Lyon, Mulhouse and Rennes.

In 1999, Lélia became one of the founders of the Sorteval Press, a group of artists dedicated to developing their skills and techniques in etching and printmaking. Their first exhibition took place at the Mall Gallery in London.

Works

The Four Seasons - Summer, 1963
60.5 x 70 cm

Screen print on paper
Signed and numbered
Edition of 300

Reference Number: 269

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