Like her father, the renowned artist Michel Delacroix, Fabienne Delacroix is a painter whose works are steeped in the poetry of another time. Her quiet, lyrical canvases are windows on the past-that legendary era of memory and desire when life was sweet and pleasures innocent and simple. She paints this simpler time with a nostalgia that seems surprising in one so young, until one remembers that the word nostalgia has its roots in an ancient Greek term meaning "to return home." And home for Fabienne Delacroix is the gorgeous landscape of her beloved country, France. Her province is the harmony that reigned during the Belle Époque, that carefree period at the beginning of the century when people flocked to Deauville, Dinard, Nice and Monte Carlo to take country walks and bathe in the waters off their shores. And it is here, amid the glorious natural beauty of the South of France, that Fabienne Delacroix's love of romance and extraordinary natural gifts as a painter take flight. But natural gifts develop best with careful schooling and few painters have enjoyed the kind of schooling that Fabienne Delacroix has. Born in 1972, she was the third and last child of Michel Delacroix. To this day, she remembers the long afternoons of her childhood when she played away the hours in her father's studio as he quietly worked away at his easel. By the age of ten, following her family's return to France after a brief stay in the United States, she had already begun to paint. Two years later, she showed her work for the first time at a gallery in Carmel, California, where it proved so popular that it sold out. Today, Fabienne Delacroix paints with her father in his studio, where she has now studied with him for over a decade. Yet, while she shares many of her father's interests, she is very much an artist in her own right. Her style and choice of subjects are uniquely her own and her palette and management of color are marked by her own strong character. In fact, her mastery of her medium and her intuitive capacity to distill the essence of a land or seascape in her images has already established Fabienne Delacroix as a major new talent. In 1996 alone, her first three limited editions for Axelle Fine Arts, her exclusive art publisher, were such a success that they virtually sold out. On display in galleries in cities around the country, they attracted so much attention that she was invited to participate in a tour of major U.S. galleries with her father. She thus traveled to cities such as New York and Boston with Michel Delacroix for joint exhibitions of their work. For information on where to find original artwork by Fabienne Delacroix in your area, please contact her publisher directly: Axelle Fine Arts, Ltd. 312 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11201 Tel: (718) 246-1200 Fax: (718) 246-1300 e-mail: sales@axelle.com If you would like to view Fabienne Delacroix's recently released limited-edition graphics, please visit Axelle Fine Arts' webiste at www.axelle.com. © 2001 Fabienne Delacroix - All Rights Reserved. Scroll down for a list of the titles translated into English. 1=Les Iles de Lerins - The Islands of Lerins 2=Le Chateau de Chambord - The Castle of Chambord 3=Automne a la Campagne - Autumn in the Countryside 4=Les Joies du Ski du Fond - The Joys of Skiing 5=L'Ete a Monte-Carlo - Summer in Monte-Carlo 6=Soir d'Ete a Cannes - Summer Evening in Cannes 7=La Gare d'Amboise -The Train Station of Amboise 8=Alsace Enchantee - Enchanted Alsace 9=Automne Pluvieux a Belle lle - Rainy Autumn in Belle-lle 10=Patinage dans le Parc - Skating in the Park 11=Restaurant des Alpilles - Alpilles Restaurant 12=Au Roi Arthur - At the King Arthur 13=Bienvenue a Bord- Welcome Aboard 14=Decollage Immediat - Immediate Take-Off 15=Le Kiosque a Musique - The Music Stand 16=Mariage Breton - Marriage in Brittany 17=Noel au Bonheur des Dames - Christmas at the "Bonheur des Dames" Store 18=Ballade a Bicyclette - Bicycle Ride 19=La Nappe a Carreaux - The Checkered Table-Cloth 20=Partie de Golf entre Amis - Golf Among Friends 21=Le Printemps a Balbec - Springtime in Balbec 22=Doelan - Doelan |
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