Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Michel Delacroix

Born in 1933 in Paris, Michel Delacroix is a prominent French painter known for his naïf art style (art created by a person who lacks formal education and training), often depicting scenes of Paris in a whimsical and childlike manner.Delacroix’s subjects include street scenes of Paris and other nearby areas of France set during his childhood during the Nazi occupation.

Delacroix began his artistic career by studying at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.Later, he worked in various artistic fields including graphic design before dedicating himself fully to painting. Delacroix has created a Paris full of magic and atmosphere that holds one’s imagination as it travels back in time.
The works are renowned for their graceful balance of the earthy and the urban, the cosmic and the ordinary.

In 1994, 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.”

More of Michel Delacroix’s lovely paintings can be found at https://www.artlex.com/artists/michel-delacroix/ and https://www.artnet.com/artists/michel-delacroix/.