Emmanuelle Pellet - L’enfance perdue

Emmanuelle Pellet - Lost Childhood
Acrylic painting on cardboard
Height: 21 cm Width: 29.7 cm
Unique piece, hand-painted, signed and numbered
The work was published in a children’s book, Le miroir de tes rêves, which is included with the shipment.

About the work:

In a wintry landscape with hints of seventeenth-century Flemish painting — a stone bridge, snowy turrets and an icy river painted with meticulous care — a fantastical and oversized crowned figure with a mischievous gaze suddenly emerges. This clash of scales between a miniature setting and a dreamlike character in warm colors creates a poetic vertigo, straddling the line between fairy tale and waking dream. This sovereign child seems to invert the world’s proportions, perhaps to express a wish to make the humble grow and to shrink the powerful. A narrative and visually striking work, at the crossroads of illustration and pictorial art, which will appeal to lovers of fantastical realms and accomplished collage.

About the artist:

A trained art historian, Emmanuelle Pellet studied at the École du Louvre and then at the Sorbonne, before passing the Agrégation in Visual Arts (3rd place). After several years of teaching, she joined the Louvre Museum as head of educational outreach.
Her career today feeds a personal body of work where painting mastery dialogues with a deep culture of image and art history. Her creations have been exhibited in galleries in Paris, London, Singapore and Mauritius, and have been the subject of numerous publications. They are now in private collections in Europe, North America, Asia and the Indian Ocean.
Through each of her works, Emmanuelle Pellet seeks to create an intimate encounter with the viewer: an emotion that lingers long after the first glance.