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  Gregg Chadwick Plat du Jour (Saint-Germain-des-Prés) detail 24"x36" oil on linen 2025 Shifting from my L.A. based weekend to dreams of Paris, I am deeply honored that my paintings are currently featured in six curated collections on the Paris-based online gallery, Singulart. My Paris set paintings Plat du Jour (Saint-Germain-des-Prés) and Champ de Mars serve as entry points for these distinct curations: 1. Blur II: The Eloquence of Unseen Horizons -curated by Marcos Felinto Featuring “Plat du Jour (Saint-Germain-des-Prés)”, this collection challenges the idea that clarity equals truth. What cannot be fully seen becomes deeply felt, creating a fluid space where memory and imagination dwell. https://www.singulart.com/en/collection/-blur-ii--35011?srsltid=AfmBOoozkYtYO1DBY26f260OE2kBk3y3RPDLHIvG0KJS3Cp3fsz-tRPP 2. Contigo Aprendi: Melancholy and Fragility -curated by Anastasia Frantzeskou – explores melancholy, loss, and the nature of nostalgia. "Champ de Mars,...

Lions, giraffes, seals… Gilles Aillaud, who died in 2005, painted animals a lot, often in captivity. Asked about his choice of animals as subject matter, Gilles Aillaud replied: “because I love them”. The fragility of our relationship with living things shows the relevance of his work. Vinciane Despret, philosopher of science, shows us four paintings by the artist, in the company of Didier Ottinger, curator of the exhibition “Gilles Aillaud. Political animal » 👉 Info: https://bit.ly/CP_ExpoAillaud 👉 Ticket office: https://bit.ly/CP_Billetterie_Aillaud Gilles Aillaud with one of his paintings in 1995

The Musée d'Orsay is exhibiting around a hundred pastels from its collection this spring 2023. This new presentation will allow the public to discover  these jewels of the collection, including pastels by Millet, Degas, Manet, Cassatt, Redon, Lévy-Dhurmer and many others. Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer La Femme à la médaille En 1896 Pastel et rehauts d'or sur papier contrecollé sur carton H. 35,0 ; L. 54,0 cm. Don Mme Zagorowski, 1972 Domaine privé © Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt Mary Cassatt, Mère et enfant sur fond vert, en 1897, pastel sur papier beige collé sur châssis entoilé, H. 55,0 ; L. 46,0 cm. , Don Mary Cassatt, 1897, ©Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Patrice Schmidt Odilon Redon, Le Char d'Apollon, vers 1910, pastel et détrempe sur toile, H. 91,5 ; L. 77,0 cm., Dation, 1978, ©RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay)/Hervé Lewandowski RESTAURATION DES PASTELS - Préserver pour exposer - FR - EN | Musée d'Orsay More at Pastels De Millet à Redon

  Gregg Chadwick Saffron and Rose 30"x22"gouache on paper 2021 Happy National Ice Cream Day! Ice cream on a summer day to cool the heat. A bevy of flavors. Perhaps saffron pistachio, white rose, pomegranate, or chocolate chip? What is your favorite flavor? My gouache on paper painting "Saffron and Rose" was inspired by a stop at an ice cream vendor in Les Halles in the shadow of Saint-Eustache. Parisian memories blend with many summers past in my painting. Available at  @saatchiart  Art and  @singulartofficial Please Note: This artwork is painted on a 30"x22" sheet of paper and the image size is 18"x12" so a nice clean border surrounds the image. Original Created: 2021 Subjects: Women Materials: Paper Styles: Art Deco   Figurative   Fine Art   Impressionism   Modern Mediums: Gouache   Monotype #art   #artoninstagram   #NationalIceCreamDay   #IceCream   #Summer   #Paris   #losangeles

When French opera singers go on strike (Turn volume up) https://t.co/3zpRId5vRj — Sophie Pedder (@PedderSophie) December 17, 2019

by Gregg Chadwick Gregg Chadwick Bookseller's Night oil on linen 2018 After the Notre Dame Cathedral Fire - in the light of day- Our Lady is scarred but standing resiliently! Angela Merkel’s spokesperson responded with the Parisian motto: a Latin phrase that personifies Paris and Notre Dame as a ship: “Fluctuat nec mergitur”—“she is tossed by the waves but does not sink.” The saying has been Paris’ motto since the 14th century, about the time when Notre Dame was completed. With grateful feelings about Notre Dame and Paris, I am pleased to let you know that my Parisian inspired painting "Bookseller's Night" has been chosen by Rebecca Wilson, Chief Curator and VP, Art Advisory at Saatchi Art, for the New This Week collection.  Direct link at:  https://www.saatchiart.com/…/Painting-Bo…/25560/4792724/view Link to the collection at  https://www.saatchiart.com/…/New-This-We…/153961/280982/view My oil on linen painting "Bookseller's Night" wa...

Mayor @PeteButtigieg on the Notre Dame fire  pic.twitter.com/BS88OXCLf7 — Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) April 16, 2019 As the smoke clears in Paris, it appears that the damage to Notre Dame is not catastrophic. The fire has destroyed the wood roof & spire along with some other elements, but the vaulted ceiling survived and Notre Dame is otherwise mostly intact. The grand organ survived the flames. The Pompiers de Paris showed their immense fire fighting skill in saving most of Notre Dame from destruction!

By Gregg Chadwick Gregg Chadwick Bookseller's Night oil on linen 2019      I lift three brushes wet with paint. Each brush holds its own hue- ultramarine blue, glowing amber, and a cool black. Airborne Toxic Event’s “Sometime AroundMidnight” plays on headphones tethered to my iPhone. The room spins like the song. I almost dance as each brush moves across the linen. Wet paint slurred into wet paint. I search for the light in the dark in a painterly chase through the night. I paint in a refurbished airplane hangar, the night glowing darkly through the skylights above me. Alone in a vast space, my thoughts travel back to years of painting at night: from a loft in SoHo during New York’s “Bright Lights Big City” years, to a small makeshift space in Tokyo, to a studio in a reconfigured office building on a block of San Francisco’s Market Street that Edward Hopper would have appreciated, to now in a building at an airfield where a fak...