Maison et Objet. Jan.2017

Here are some pictures of the last collection I exhibited at Maison et Objet.

This collection is a tribute to great painters of the past.
Papillon des Flandres and Camelia are close ups of a beautiful still life by dutch artist Jan Van Huysum ( 1682.1749) . Carélie and Ruisseau d'Ivan are from Ivan Chichkin ( 1832.1898). This is probably the influence of the week we spent , for the International Salon of decorative painting, in St Petersburg!

I hope you will enjoy these pictures.

Maison et Objet January 2016

Maison et Objet January 2016 was over on Tuesday night...here are pictures of my last booth.

My sources of inspiration were, at usual ,definitely classical . I am and will certainly forever be fascinated by beautiful paintings.
The gorgious hand with the flowers is from a croatian painter of the late XIXth, Mr Bukhova , the grisaille from a photo I took of a plaster relief in a nice castle where I worked a couple of years ago, the romantic moonlit landscape from Wright of Derby, the melancholic portrait from Lord Leighton ( I love english painters very much) , the delicate hand and bubbles from a student of Rembrandt named Karel Dujardin and the lovely roses from a still life by Peter Faes ( flemish , late XVIIIth)...I hope you will enjoy those pictures.

Maison et Objet 2015

Here are a few pictures of my latest booth at Maison et Objet.

My exhibitions space was smaller than usual ( you do not always get what you want on such huge shows) so, instead of showing a variety of medium sized paintings as I usually do I decided to cover my three walls ( height 3,5 m / 10,5 ft) with three large murals. 

I wanted to show potential customers how a space is positively altered by such large artworks ...and I think it worked pretty well.

Full view of the booth.

The canvas on the left ( 3x3,5m) is a "modern" composition whose main motif is a fragment of a painting by Pierre Auguste Cot ( 1837-1883).

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The central painting ( 4 x 3m) is a grisaille based on an acanthus leaves sketch that I blew up to a very large size and a sketch by Leonardo da Vinci that I slightly modified .

Picture taken in daylight.

Small painting of a detail of a beautiful cake whose composition echoes the curves of the  acanthus leaves.

The panel on the right was inspired by an XVIIIth century watercolor ( did not find the name of the painter). I also transformed it a little ( removed buildings, changed the sky ...).

Small painting of XVIIIth century shoes ; I thought there was a nice relationship between these shoes and the style and colors of the landscape.

This was also on Maison et Objet , on Moissonnier booth. This is a copy of a portrait of Betty de Rotschild by Ingres , ten times bigger than the original , probably technically the hardest piece I ever painted.

Maison et Objet 2014

                            Here are a few pictures of my booth at Maison & Objet in January.

Views of my booth...

Detail of a painting by David.

Panel inspired by the Boudoir de Marie-Antoinette in Fontainebleau, on white gold.

Close up.

fragment of a still life panel by a dutch painter of the XVIIIth century.

Inspired by a portrait of Joshua Reynolds.

View of swiss mountains inspired by a german painter of the XIXth century.