New exhibition by Benjamin Lacombe in Paris! Galerie Gallimard opens its doors to the famous French illustrator from November 26, 2024 to January 9, 2025. The opportunity to discover a series of originals by Benjamin Lacombe taken from “Portrait of Dorian Gray”, and presented for the first time in France.
If you are one of the many admirers of the work of Benjamin Lacombethen what follows is likely to please you! After exhibitions at the Daniel Maghen gallery then at Deyrolle in Paris, the famous French illustrator is exhibiting several of his recent gouaches, oils and watercolors at the Gallimard Gallery.
Nestled in the 7th arrondissement of the capital, this gallery opens its doors to Benjamin Lacombefrom November 26, 2024 to January 9, 2025, on the occasion of the exhibition-sale entitled “ Black butterfly ».
Black butterfly is also the name of the new collection designed and directed by Benjamin Lacombe for Éditions Gallimard. The idea? Adapting great literary texts into graphic novels, “ erasing the boundaries between book-object, literature, illustrations and comics », It is specified.
Also, Éditions Gallimard announces the release of the first three titles. Let us first quote “ The Picture of Dorian Gray », illustrated by Benjamin Lacombe, and available since October 30. Written by Oscar Wilde, it is the first work to address homosexuality without taboos. Other titles published in the Papillon Noir collection? “ Carmen » (text by Prosper Mérimée), here also with drawings by Benjamin Lacombe, and finally « The Witches of Venice » (text by Sébastien Perez), an anticipation novel illustrated by Marco Mazzoni.
On the occasion of the release of these different titles, Benjamin Lacombe exhibits several originals at the Gallimard Gallery, including his gouaches, oils and watercolors taken from the “ Portrait de Dorian Gray “. Creations in colored pencil and Indian ink by Marco Mazzoni from the work “ The Witches of Venice » will also be admired on site. The icing on the cake, new illustrations of works to be published soon in the Papillon Noir collection, signed Isabella Mazzanti et Aron Wiesenfeldwill also be exhibited at the Galerie Gallimard.
Not to be missed from November 26, 2024 to January 9, 2025this event will also offer art prints and exclusive objects for sale throughout the duration of the exhibition. And as entry is free and free, you would be wrong not to take advantage of it.
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