Michel Delacroix
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MICHEL DELACROIX — When we hear the named Michel Delacroix, we envision Paris in a time where the lifestyle was simple and at a slower pace. Famous for his naïve style, he has captured many eyes to explore the inner activities in his paintings. Each painting tells a story which has kept his collector following in the past and into the future.
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Michel Delacroix is truly a French original: an acclaimed master of the naïf tradition and one of the most popular and successful artists in the world today. A self-styled "painter of dreams and of the poetic past," Delacroix has devoted five decades to painting a city he calls "the Paris of then," the magical place where he was born, where he spent his boyhood, and where he continues to live to this day.
But the Paris Delacroix paints is not the urban metropolis of the present. It is the dream-like place the city became in the 1940s, during the Occupation, when "we suddenly jumped fifty years into the past. No more cars in the streets, very few lights. Paris suddenly became very quiet, very dark, and, though people were afraid, there was a brotherhood and spirit that was very delightful. "For Delacroix, who was then a child of seven and spared by his age from grasping "the cruelties and absurdities" of war, it was "the one great adventure of my live."
And it is to this special Paris - the Paris of by-gone years and innocent splendors that Michel Delacroix has returned to over and over again in his gentle works. These works, renowned for their graceful balance of "the earthy and the urban, the cosmic and the ordinary," have captivated private collectors, museums and ordinary people alike throughout the world, earning the artist both universal acclaim and numerous awards.
In the U.S. alone, Michel Delacroix's work has been featured in over 275 one-person shows, from New York City, Boston, and Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles, Carmel, Denver, Seattle, and San Francisco. Abroad, his work has been exhibited in France, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg, England, and Japan, and forms part of the permanent collections of the Musee International d'Art Naïf and the Foundation Max Fournay in Paris, and of private collections around the globe.
In 1995, Michel Delacroix was named an Official Artist of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Ganges and commissioned to celebrate the 1996 Games in an oil painting. Titled Atlanta 1886-1996, Delacroix's stunning work was used to create an Official Poster for the 1996 Games and a special Limited Edition. In 1994, Delacroix was also honored by the U.S. Olympic Committee, which selected him to serve as an Official Artist and commissioned him to mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the modern Olympic Games in a painting. The resulting work, 1896 Olympics, was itself used to create an Official Poster and a beautiful Limited Edition. In 1995, Delacroix also became the Official Artist of the 1995 Special Olympics World Games.
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Original Paintings by Michel Delacroix |
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En foret Avec Georges-1669 |
Rue Norvins a Montmartre 13 X 9, F 19 X 14 Original Painting by Michel Delacroix |
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| Jeux d'enfants dans la prairie-1447 9.5 X 13 Original painting by Michel Delacroix |
Le renseignement-1692 11 X 14 Original painting by Michel Delacroix |
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| Rue des petits paves Gouache on paper 13 X 18 |
Croquis du Pont Neuf-1846 10 X 13 Original Painting by Michel Delacroix |
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Rue Saint Jacques |
Le Coeur de Paris au ciel rose Limited edition serigraph 29 X 35 |
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| Montecristo Royal Limited edition serigraph, 23.5 X 28.5 |
Noel est de retour Limited edition serigraph 23.5 X 28.75 |
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| “Boulevard des Capucines” Limited edition serigraph 13” X 16” by Michel Delacroix |
“La Havane” Limited edition serigraph 23.5” X 28.75” by Michel Delacroix |
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| “La Sortie de L'Opera” Limited edition serigraph 13” X 16” by Michel Delacroix |
“La Vie en Rose” Limited edition serigraph 23.5” X 28.5” by Michel Delacroix |
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| “L'Aeroplane” Limited edition lithograph 24.5” X 28.5” by Michel Delacroix |
“Le Ballon Jaune” Limited edition serigraph 13” X 16” by Michel Delacroix |
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| “Le Quai d' Orsay Limited edition serigraph 13” X 16” by Michel Delacroix |
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