Françoise Gilot (1921-2023)

A French artist of the post-World War II School of Paris, Françoise Gilot is perhaps most famous as a muse and lover to Pablo Picasso.

While her story may be inextricably linked to 20th century art’s most towering figure, Gilot’s remarkable life and vast oeuvre deserves recognition on its own merits.

In a career spanning over seven decades, Gilot’s distinct language of form and color reveals an enduring preoccupation with both the personal and universal forces of nature, time, space and mythology.

Le Yack, 1972 | Pop urban art

Alexandre Pelletier, also known as "Le Yack", is a talented native of Tours.

He first graduated in design and arts, then in communication, and was naturally attracted by graphic design.

He chose to devote his professional career to it. Art director in publishing and web for over 20 years, he evolves daily in the middle of images and stories.

During the Covid crisis, Alexandre feels the need to find a new space of expression and launches himself into "graffiti painting". Just 2 years later, "Le Yack" is already exhibiting at the gallery "l'Empreinte" in Orleans.

Ismaël Costa, 1965

Coming from a family from Barcelona in Spain, Ismaël has lived in Provence since the age of nine.

His childhood was devoted to the practice of drawing, and more particularly to the genre of comic strips which he was fond of.

As a teenager, his interest led him more towards the study of portraits.

Ismaël began working at the age of sixteen, first as a designer for a publishing house, then as an illustrator in a Parisian communications agency.

Claire Denarie-Soffietti, 1923

Born and raised in Versailles, Claire Denarie-Soffietti was an autodidactic art student from the outset.

After eight years living in Barbados and four children, the artist and her husband (an Italian architect) decided to settle for good and now reside in beautiful Dolphin Coast of South Africa.

Denarie works have evolved over the years.

Jacques Prevert | Sono quella che sono / I am what I am

Sono quella che sono

Sono fatta così

Se ho voglia di ridere

Rido come una matta

Amo colui che m’ama

Pino Daeni | Romantic painter

Patrick Pietropoli, 1953

Patrick Pietropoli is a contemporary painter artist who represents cityscapes and street scenes along with delicate figural compositions.

He paints the carefully articulated architecture of New York, Paris, Rome and Venice as well as the intimate portrayal of the feminine figure always finding a perfect balance between freedom and form.

Patrick Pietropoli was born in Paris.

Pierre Bonnard: "Art will never be able to exist without nature".

Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) was a French painter, illustrator and printmaker, known especially for the stylized decorative qualities of his paintings and his bold use of color.

A founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis, his early work was strongly influenced by the work of Paul Gauguin, as well as the prints of Hokusai and other Japanese artists.

Bonnard was a leading figure in the transition from Impressionism to Modernism.

He painted landscapes, urban scenes, portraits and intimate domestic scenes, where the backgrounds, colors and painting style usually took precedence over the subject.

François Pagé, 1962 | Conceptual painter

François Pagé was born in Tours where he currently lives.

He defines himself as a conceptual painter.

Pagé graduated with a degree in History of Art and finished a National Postgraduate Degree in Expression in Visual Arts at l'École de Beaux Arts de Tours.

He particularly admires the work of Gerhard Richter, a painter from former East Germany who was one of the first artists to examine society in his artwork.

Stylistically speaking, Pagé, who hates the idea of chance and limits the size of his canvases to the nearest cm2, is impossible to define.

Paul Verlaine | Autumn Song / Chanson d'automne, 1866

The long sobs

Of violins

Of autumn

Wound my heart

With a monotone

Languor.

Vincent van Gogh | Autumn garden

Yuri Denissov, 1962 | Figurative painter

Franco-Russian painter Yuri Denissov lives and works in Antibes and participates in the cultural life of the Côte d'Azur.

His father was a philosophy professor.

Denissov studied at the Fine Arts School of Saint Petersburg, diploma with honors "Excellent", in 1991.

Thanks to his academic training and his realistic painting technique, Yuri Denisov manages to create lively compositions that bring scenes from everyday life to life.

Eléonore Sieulle | Expressionist painter

Eléonore Sieulle: "I focus on expressiveness and emotional feeling and I rely on the momentum of my hand.

Through the speed of execution, I try to establish the immediacy of a movement and make apparent the primitive power of instinct.

Through drawing, I want to draw what is invisible to the naked eye. Drawing is the right to tumult.

Aimé-Jules Dalou | La Belle Époque sculptor

Aimé-Jules Dalou (1838-1902) was a 19th-century French sculptor, admired for his perceptiveness, execution, and unpretentious realism.

He was one of the founders of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and was the first president of the sculpture section.

Pablo Neruda | Ode to Tomatoes / Ode al pomodoro

The street

filled with tomatoes,

midday,

summer,

light is

halved

like

a

tomato,

its juice

runs

through the streets.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Melon et tomates | Christie's

Frédéric Thiery | Romantic Urban style painter

Inspired by a painter father, Frédéric was interested from a very early age in drawing and painting.

He studied fine arts at the University of Aix-en-Provence.

After graduation, he moved to southern Spain where he discovered various crafts: leather work, silk painting, jewellery making…

By being in contact with these artisans he learned to make leather accessories (belts, bags) and experimented with cold enamel work (producing the same aesthetic effect as enamel, but without firing).

Claude Monet | Vétheuil, 1880

"I have painted the Seine throughout my life, at every hour, at every season...

I have never tired of it: for me the Seine is always new" - Claude Monet

Claude Monet | Vétheuil, 1880 | Sotheby's

The present work depicts Vétheuil, the small village situated sixty kilometres north of Paris on the riverbanks of the Seine, where the artist lived with his wife and children from 1878 until 1881.

Unlike Monet’s previous home of Argenteuil, Vétheuil was further along the Seine and thus slightly out of reach for Parisians escaping the city on a weekend.

As a result, both the village and surrounding countryside had remained largely untouched and the remote setting became the ideal vehicle for Monet’s increasing interest in painting nature en plein air.

Georges Jeanniot | Belle Époque painter

Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934) was a Swiss-French Impressionist painter, designer, watercolorist, and engraver who was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and died in France.

His work often depicts the modern life in Paris.

The artistic education of Pierre-Georges Jeanniot began with his father, Pierre-Alexandre Jeanniot (1826–1892), a longtime director of l'École des Beaux-Arts of Dijon, France.

Pierre-Georges Jeanniot started out pursuing a military career, as an infantry officer (1866-1881).

Irina Biatturi, 1975 | Art Déco painter

A graduate of the Nicolae Grigorescu Art Academy and the N. Tonitza Art High School, Bucharest, Irina Biatturi has been in contact with painting since she was very young.

After living for a few years in Mexico and New Zealand, she now lives and works in Antibes, a coastal city in the Alpes-Maritimes department of southeastern France, on the Côte d'Azur between Cannes and Nice.

Her oil paintings, which have women and sensuality as their subject, are inspired by Art Deco and Art Nouveau, but also by the compositions of the Italian Renaissance masters, for the light and the colours.

Gustave Caillebotte | Dahlias, Garden at Petit Gennevilliers, 1893

A leader of the impressionist movement - a central exhibitor and organizing force for several of their exhibitions between 1876 and 1882 - Gustave Caillebotte was also an avid gardener.

Like his close friend Claude Monet, with whom he shared gardening expertise and exchanged tips, he created lush, vibrantly colored landscapes and translated them into paint on canvas.

This marvelous addition to the Gallery's singular impressionist collection celebrates his prized dahlias exploding in the foreground in front of his greenhouse and home.

Claude Monet and the Sea

Claude Monet | The Jetty a Le Havre, 1868

Claude Monet | The Manneporte (Étretat), 1883 | Metropolitan Museum of Art

Monet spent most of February 1883 at Étretat, a fishing village and resort on the Normandy coast.

He painted twenty views of the beach and the three extraordinary rock formations in the area: the Porte d'Aval, the Porte d'Amont, and the Manneporte.

Léo Gausson | Neo-impressionist painter

Léo Gausson (1860-1944) was a French landscape painter in the Neo-impressionist and Synthetic styles.

He was also a printmaker and sculptor.

He was born in Lagny-sur-Marne.

He began his art education by taking evening classes, mostly devoted to sculpture, at the "National School of Decorative Arts".

When he first turned to painting, he found his inspiration in the Barbizon School, to which he was introduced by a local artist, originally from Spain, named Antonio Cortès (1827-1908), who had studied with Constant Troyon.