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 Moulin Rouge sous la Pluie Original limited edition serigraph, 2002 Edition of 150 on white paper $2,000 Edition of 150 on canvas $3,000 Image Size: 30" x 35" |
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Moulin Rouge sous la Pluie Original limited edition serigraph, 2002 Edition of 150 on white paper $2,000 Edition of 150 on canvas $3,000 Image Size: 30" x 35" |
 Chevaux Noirs Dans la Neige Acrylic on Board, 10 1/2 x 13 1/4" Sorry, sold for $11,500 framed  Trimming the Tree Original lithograph, numbered LXXXVI/CL Image size: 8 1/2 x 6 3/4" Frame size: 15 3/4 x 14 5/8" Sorry, sold  7 Rue des Grands Augustins Acrylic on Board, 13 x 10" Sold for $11,400 framed  Le Canal de l'Arsenal Acrylic on Board, 18 x 15" Sold for $17,500 framed Saper Galleries is pleased to welcome you to enjoy these paintings by one of the most important primitive artists of our time. |
  Famous the world over for his masterful
preservation of the naïf style, Michel Delacroix (born in Paris in
1933) has earned his reputation as one of the most beloved 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 find
inspiration to this day.
The Paris Delacroix paints is not the urban metropolis of the present. It is the dream-like place the city became in 1940, 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 life." And it is to this special Paris - the Paris of by-gone years and innocent splendors that 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 praise and numerous awards. In the U.S. alone, Delacroix's work has been featured in over 300 solo exhibitions, from New York City, Boston, and Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles, Carmel, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco -- and today, East Lansing! Abroad, his work has been exhibited in France, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg, England, and Japan. It 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 1994, Michel Delacroix was named an Official Artist of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games 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 titled "1896 Olympic". In 1995, Delacroix became the Official Artist of the 1995 Special Olympics World Games. |
 Ah! Les Beaux Jours (Ah! The Beautiful Days) Original serigraph, 27 x 20" $1,350 |
 Concours d'Attelage aux Champs-Elysees (Buggy Parade) Original serigraph, 23 x 28" Paper $1,500; Canvas $2,500 |
 Fete foraine de la Place de Vosges (Fun Fair, Place des Vosges) Original serigraph, 24 x 29" $1,500 |
 L'Ile de la Cité (The Island of the City) Original serigraph, 29 x 35" $1,800 on paper; $2,700 on canvas |
 La Sainte-Chapelle Eclairée (Saint Chapel at Night) Original serigraph, 24 x 17" $1,250 |
 La Canotier (The Boater) Original lithograph, 19 x 23" $2,000 |
 La Traviata (The Traviata) Original serigraph, 21 x 32" $1,500 |
 La Vie en Rose (Sweet Life) Original serigraph, 24 x 29" $1,500 on paper; $2,500 on canvas |
 Le Chevet de Notre-Dame en hiver (The Apse of Notre-Dame in Winter) Original serigraph, 23 x 28" $1,400 on paper; $2,000 canvas |
 Le Coeur de Paris (The Heart of Paris) Original serigraph, 29 x 35" Sorry, sold out |
 Les Bouquinistes (The Second-hand Booksellers) Original lithograph, 18 x 22" $1,100 |
 Les Grands Boulevards la Nuit (The Grand Boulevards at Night) Original serigraph, 23 x 28" $1,500 on paper; $2,500 canvas |
 Montecristo (Montecristo - Cigars of the Arts) Original serigraph, 24 x 29" $1,500 |
 Noel! Noel! (Christmas! Christmas!) Original serigraph, 24 x 29" $2,500 on paper; $3,500 canvas |
 Noel de neige sur Paris (Christmas Snow over Paris) Original serigraph, 37 x 23" $2,600 on canvas |
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