Emmanuelle Pellet - Cassis

Through a French window, the port of Cassis unfolds: white boats moored, palm trees swaying their fronds in the southern light, a wrought-iron balustrade. Turquoise shutters, a generous bouquet on the windowsill: the decor evokes those interiors of the Midi that Matisse made unforgettable, where the cross-window becomes a color plane as much as an opening to the sea.

But in this Provençal living room, an strange little people has slipped in: a tightrope-walking cat with a tricolor flag, statuesque on its hind legs; a fox with glasses, elegant in his polka-dot shirt, blowing a golden horn; a disheveled bird, blue-flowered crest, accordions. An improbable brass band, caught in full aubade, between farce and tenderness.

The artist thus appropriates the great tradition of Mediterranean windows — its bold planes, its ochre and blue light, its architecture of calm — to let in a very personal imagination: that of fairy tale and carnival. The line is free, the material generous, the gesture full of humor and vitality.

A work full of wit and color, which transforms a vacation scene into a little facetious theater — and which, on a wall, will never fail to make those who look at it smile.

Signed at the bottom right (monogram in a blue diamond).

About the artist
A art historian by training, Emmanuelle Pellet studied at the École du Louvre and then at the Sorbonne before passing the Agrégation of Plastic Arts (3rd place). After several years of teaching, she joined the Louvre Museum as head of educational outreach.
Her works have been exhibited in galleries in Paris, London, Singapore and Mauritius. They have been the subject of numerous publications and are today in private collections in Europe, North America, Asia and the Indian Ocean.

NB: the canvas will be shipped rolled.