Orovida Pissarro, Jaguar

Orovida Pissarro 1893-1968

Jaguar

gouache, pen and ink over etching on paper

17.7 x 24.5

(lower right): 'Orovida' and inscribed (beneath): 'The Monkey Killer, Orovida, 1947'

2005-2

@Orovida Pissarro estate

Photo: Bridgeman images

Orovida's most distinctive works are her paintings of the 1920s and 1930s in gouache (she called her mixture 'bodycolour') and egg tempera, applied in thin, delicate washes to silk, linen,...

Provenance

a bequest from James Colyer-Fergusson 2005 through the good offices of Art Fund

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