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ORIVIDA
CAMILLE PISSARRO R.B.A, W.I.A.C (1893 – 1968)
Original
Etching
“Pigs”
Signed,
titled & dated 1930 and numbered 22/50
7
¾” x 9 ¾” (198mm x 247mm)
Overall
framed size 17 1/8” x 18 3/8” (435mm x 467mm) IMAGE IMAGE
Orivida Pissarro was
an etcher and painter. She was born at Epping, Essex, the daughter of the
artistsLucien Pissaro and
the granddaughter of the impressionist Camille Pissarro. She studied
painting with her father and briefly with Walter Sickert. In 1914 in France she started experimenting with etching and then on
her return to England she bought a press and a book on the technique of
etchings and set to work. She was influenced by Chinese, Japanese,
Persian and Indian art which can be seen in much of her work, especially
animals. She first exhibited in London in 1919, showing regularly at the
Royal Academy, the New English Art Club, the Royal Society of British Artists,
of which she was a Member, and the Womens’
International Art Club, of which she was also a Member. She also
exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Redfern Gallery, Manchester City
Art Gallery, the London Salon, Leicester Art Gallery, Walker Art Gallery
Liverpool, the Glasgow Institute and the Goupil
Gallery. She had solo shows in London and North America. In
1921 she exhibited in a joint exhibition with the French artist Marie
Laurencin. In 1969 the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford held a memorial show of
her etchings, paintings and drawings and published a catalogue of her etchings
and aquatints. She signed her work “Orivida”.
Of singular appearance Orivida was the subject of two remarkable portraits by Carel Weight R.A., one in the Ashmolean and the other in
the Tate Gallery. Her work can be found in the collections of the British
Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Ashmolean Museum Oxford, the New
York Public Library U.S.A., the Rijks Museum
Amsterdam, the Stockholm Art Museum and the
Contemporary Art Society and many other British as well as many other galleries
throughout the world.
