Hugues Claude Pissarro (born 1935) is a French

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. He is alternately known as Hugues Claude Pissarro, H. Claude Pissarro, and professionally as Isaac Pomié or Hugues Pissarro dit Pomié. His work has been featured in exhibitions in

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and the

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, and he was commissioned by the

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in 1959 to paint a portrait of U.S. President

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. Pissarro's work has evolved through a variety of different styles and techniques, from abstract to

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. In 1989, he began a series of contemporary landscapes which were signed "Isaac Pomié" in order to distinguish them from his traditional works. Today, the contemporary paintings are signed "Hugues Pissarro dit Pomié".

Life and career

He is the grandson of

Camille Pissarro Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro ( , ; 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but t ...

and son of

Paul-Émile Pissarro Paul-Émile Pissarro, also Paulémile Pissarro or Paul Émile Pissarro (22 August 1884 in Éragny-sur-Epte, France – 20 January 1972 in Clécy in the department of Calvados, France) was a French impressionist and neo-impressionist painte ...

. He was born in

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, where he frequently returned with his father on painting excursions. He first exhibited his work at the age of fourteen, and subsequently studied in

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. He later became a professor of art and taught for many years in places such as

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. He also taught his daughter, Lélia Pissarro, to paint.

Training

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References

H. Claude Pissarro – Stern Pissarro GalleryExhibit offers portrait of a dynasty By James Auer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel art critic April 09, 1999Humanities Web, Contributed by Jim Lane 15 April 2001Artnews.com
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20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists French male painters 21st-century French painters French people of Portuguese-Jewish descent 21st-century French male artists 20th-century French Sephardi Jews Jewish painters 1935 births Living people Artists from Neuilly-sur-Seine