Esquire Fine Art is pleased to announce the inaugural New York exhibition of the works of French artist Patrice Rouge.

Esquire Fine Art is pleased to announce the inaugural New York exhibition of the works of French artist Patrice Rouge. Sponsored by Salomon Art Gallery, the exhibition will run from May 11 to May 30, 2019 at a location to be announced within the next few weeks. A launch party will be held prior to the official opening, time and place TBA.

The works by Patrice Rouge, primarily acrylic on canvas, have never before been exhibited or offered for sale in New York City and the Salomon showing represents an important opportunity for collectors. Interested buyers are invited to visit the artist’s website www.patricerouge.com where many of the works are on display. Pre-sale offers for paintings are now being accepted and should be addressed to the artist’s agent, Hal Pollock, whose details are listed below.

Most of the large format works that will highlight the exhibition have been created specifically for the showing and reflect the emergence of Patrice Rouge as a remarkable new artist whose story is only now unfolding. Raised by French parents in Grenoble, France, Rouge’s creative instincts were nurtured while attending art school as a teenager. After completing his studies, he was anxious to travel and seek his fortune abroad. First he traveled to America where he spent six months exploring the expanses of the southwest – Arizona, New Mexico, Utah – absorbing the colors of the landscape and in particular those of the Grand Canyon.

He committed those images to memory never expecting that they would one day find expression in his paintings. After leaving the U.S., he ventured to Brazil where he would embark on a career as a diamond trader. Rouge was drawn to the rich colors of Brazil, the dense jungle terrain, and the exotic grandeur of the Amazon. He was so enamored of the land that he would spend most of the next four decades living and working in Rio de Janeiro.

As time passed, Rouge became increasingly aware that there was something lacking in his life. In 2015, he decided it was time to leave the diamond trade and pursue his true calling – painting. During the course of a late evening dinner over wine at an idyllic Provençal restaurant, a friend suggested that he needed to change course in life. That was the moment Patrice realized that he needed to take up painting again as a way of reconnecting to his former passion.

This marked the creative rebirth of Patrice Rouge. Within a year, he had completed several dozen paintings, and he has since poured himself into his art with increasing urgency. His paintings are a torrential downpour of colors, the blue of the Arizona sky, the intense greens and yellows of the Brazilian diamonds, the red of its tourmalines, the gold of imperial topaz.

This May, Patrice Rouge will finally get the chance to put his life and work on display in New York. Meanwhile, he continues to spend days and nights in his atelier at a family Chateau in the French Pyrenees where he has immersed himself into creating a new series of stunningly beautiful works.

After a lifetime spent observing beautiful things, the artist has found his true self and is ready to make his mark on the art world.

Hal Pollock, International Business Agent
5900 Harper Rd, Ste 107
Solon OH 44139 USA
+1, 440-318-4234
esq@pollock-law.com