PISSARRO, Georges

French painter and also a designer of textiles, decorative objects, furniture and glassware. He was the second son of Camille Pissarro. He painted in the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist style and became known under the pseudonym of Manzana, the name of his grandmother on his mother's side. In 1889 he moved to London where he attended a school of decoration. His father supported his artistic endeavours.

In 1898 he set up a studio in Montmartre, Paris. He exhibited for the first time at the SalonGLOSSARYIn the French language of the 18th and 19th centuries it designated an actual exhibition space, as well as the academic art exhibitions staged in the Salon d'Apollon of the Louvre since 1667. From 1737, the exhibitions took place biennially and, after the French Revolution, annually in the Salon Carré of the Louvre in Paris. Towards the end of the 19th century the official Salon jury was dissolved in order to make way for a committee of state-approved artists, i.e. former Salon members, who created the highly influential Société des Artistes Français. des Indépendants in 1903. After 1906 he turned to an Oriental manner influenced by Persian miniatures and Japanese painting.