Paul Emile Pissarro

Le cheval blanc

1930 s

Birds by Jankel Adler (1895-1949) Oil and ciment on canvas 61.4 x 46.4 cm (24¹/₈ x 18¹/₄ inches) Signed lower right, Adler Executed in 1948 Provenance Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zürich, 1959 Gimpel Fils Gallery, London Denham Gallery, UK Exhibitions John Denham Gallery, Jankel Adler, June 9th - June 23rd 1996 Jankel Adler was born in Lodz, Poland and lived a life of wandering. In 1912 he moved to Belgrade where he began training as an engraver with his uncle and then went to Germany in 1914 where he lived for a time with his sister in Barmen. There he studied at the college of arts and crafts with Professor Gustav Wiethücher. Between 1918 and 1921 he moved between Lodz and Germany until in 1922, he settled in Düsseldorf where he became a teacher at the Academy of Arts, and became acquainted with Paul Klee, who influenced his work. A painting by Adler received a gold medal at the exhibition “German art Düsseldorf” in 1928. In 1933, with the rise of Hitler’s Nazi regime, he left Germany for Paris. With the outbreak of World War II in 1939, he volunteered for the Polish army...

Cat and Cockerel by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871 - 1961) Oil and gold on panel 65 x 94 cm (25 ⁵/₈ x 37 inches) Signed and dated, Manzana Pissarro 1925 This work is accompanied by ...

*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Exercising Ponies by Orovida Camille Pissarro (1893-1968) Oil on board 101.5 x 76 cm (40 x 30 inches) Signed and dated lower right Orovida 1954 Provenance Estate of Orovida Pissarro With John Bensusan-Butt, cousin of the artist Sotheby's London, 12th October 1988 G Hassell, 25th November 1988 With John Noott, 10th June 1992 Literature K L Erickson, Orovida Pissarro: Painter and Print-Maker with A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, (doctoral thesis), Oxford, 1992, Appendices, no. 161 (illustrated) Exhibitions London, Bowmore Gallery, Women in Art 1850-1989, 2nd-11th November 1989 Fort Lauderdale, Museum of Art, Camille Pissarro and his Descendants, January-April 2000, no.123 This work was included in the above important museum exhibition and a catalogue of the Fort Lauderdale museum show will be included with this painting. Biography Orovida Camille Pissarro, the only child of Lucien and Esther Pissarro, was the first woman in the Pissarro family to become a professional artist and the first Pissarro of her generation to take up painting. Born in Epping, England, in 1893, she lived and worked predominantly in London, where she was a prominent member of several British arts clubs and societies. She first learned to paint in the Impressionist style from her father and, after a brief period of formal study with Walter Sickert in 1913, she renounced formal art schooling. Throughout her career, Orovida always remained outside mainstream British art movements. Much to Lucien's disappointment, she soon turned away from naturalistic painting and developed an unusual style that combined elements of Japanese, Chinese, Persian and Indian art. Her rejection of Impressionism, which, for the Pissarro family, was a way of life, and her simultaneous decision to drop her famous last name and use simply Orovida as a nom de peintre, reflected a desire for independence and distance from the family legacy, of which she nevertheless remained proud. Orovida's most distinctive works are her paintings from the 1920s...

*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Father, Daughter and Horse by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968) Oil on canvas 60 x 73 cm (23 ⅝ x 28 ¾ inches) Signed a...