Fabian Perez | Eden in Toulouse

Fabian Perez (b. 1967)
Eden in Toulouse
Hand embellished signed limited edition

Eden in Toulouse places Fabian Perez's characteristic female subject in the city of Toulouse — the Pink City of southwestern France, whose distinctive terracotta brick architecture and specific quality of warmth and light connects it culturally to the Mediterranean world. The title carries a deliberate art historical resonance: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, the painter whose café and cabaret scenes of 1890s Paris defined a certain visual language of nocturnal glamour, is the implicit presence behind a work that shares his interest in the beautiful, the fleeting, and the specific atmosphere of a room at a particular hour of the night.

Perez's chiaroscuro technique — the luminous figure emerging from the atmospheric dark — is fully deployed here. His Neo-Emotionalism philosophy places the importance of feeling above the importance of technique, and Eden in Toulouse delivers both in equal measure. His collectors include Arnold Schwarzenegger, Al Pacino, Rafael Nadal, and Pope Francis. Hand embellished and signed. Edition of 95. Available through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London.

Hand embellished signed limited edition | Edition of 95
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