La Princesse de Clèves - 55

Acrylic on canvas and collage (size 27 x 41 cm).

This work is part of the original illustrations and drawings made by Christian Lacroix to illustrate La Princesse de Clèves by Madame de Lafayette. Around fifty original graphic works (watercolors, collages, drawings) as well as ceramics and canvases made exclusively for the Gallery, are exhibited and put on sale in the space of the Galerie Gallimard staged by Christian Lacroix.

A lover of books, words, literature and beautiful works, Christian Lacroix took up the challenge of appropriating, by revisiting it graphically, the text of Madame de Lafayette. Designer and scenographer, decorator and costume designer, illustrator and visual artist, this Arlesian by birth and by heart likes to touch on everything that inspires and fascinates him. After thirty years of haute couture and fashion, he now works for the stage (for the Comédie Française - Lucrèce Borgia currently, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, or the Opéra Comique and the Operas of Paris, Frankfurt, Vienna and Berlin), he draws and paints, or even designs hotels and exhibitions, trams and ceramics.