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  • Lelia Pissarro - Recent Works
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Lélia Pissarro:
THE COLOURS OF SILENCE
 
  

The subject of this series of snow paintings is Yeyette Lebatard’s house, in the heart of the Calvados village of Clécy, a motif Lélia visited five years ago but explores again with a fresh eye, a fresh mind and a different technique.

Again, Lélia concentrates on the exploration of variation within a single subject, achievable only through a series of repetitions, each one finely yet distinctly different from the preceding canvas.

Lélia feels intimately and deeply drawn to this subject which figures so significantly in her childhood makeup as an image embodying security, happiness, family life with her grandfather Paulémile, community solidarity, as well as an assured and comforting sense of solitude within the snowy landscape. 
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