Abstract. The main goal of this note is the study of pureness and fullness properties of compact complex manifolds under holomorphic deformations. Firstly, we construct small deformations of pure-and-full complex manifolds along which one of these properties is lost while the other one is preserved. Secondly, we show that the property of being pure-and-full is not closed under holomorphic deformations. In order to do so, we focus on the class of 6-dimensional solvmanifolds endowed with invariant complex structures. In the special case of nilmanifolds, we also give a classification of those invariant complex structures that are both pure and full. In addition, relations of the cohomological decomposition with other metric and complex properties are studied.