Monarro Group

Founded in 1919 this is a now somewhat obscure group whose founder was Lucien Pissarro with the help of his brother Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro. James Bolivar Manson acted as the group’s secretary in England and Theo van Rysselberghe in Paris. The aim of the group was to exhibit those artists who were inspired by the leading Impressionists, Monet and Pissarro, hence the name. The only known women who exhibited with the Group were Hilary C. Hassell and Elsie Marian Henderson. However, it lasted only a brief three years. Other members included New Zealand painter Raymond Francis McIntyre (1879-1933). At least two exhibitions were held at the Goupil Gallery in 1920 and 1921 and included the work of Post-Impressionist Paul Signac.

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