Michel DelacroixHand signed Folk Art Naive lithograph on Arches Paper Paris Snowman Scene

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Michel Loeb (French, 1931- )
"Le Petit Clocher"
Oil on Panel Painting
Frame: 22.5" X 26"
Image: 14.5" X 17.75"
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"Le Petit Clocher"
Oil on Panel Painting
Frame: 22.5" X 26"
Image: 14.5" X 17.75"
Hand signed bottom left
Oil on board Fauve painting of a French countryside scene with trees, farmers and houses.

Michel Loeb, 1930- painter, was born in Saint-Cloud. Lives and works in Luberon. Art naïf. Pointillist, Fauvist, Surrealist, Dadai artist, unclassifiable, highly original, unique art. His works radiate a light, a love of colors, of the absurd, of the funny, of the tender and of the poetic. French Naive art. Galerie Felix Vercel showed his work. Whether in color or black & white, in painting, sculpture or a lithograph print, the world of Michel Loeb is a poetic, joyful and exuberant paradise, where humor and fantasy are never far away. Extravagant works that sparkle like their iconoclastic author whose titles often say a lot. Each work is executed with great attention to detail, often under the magnifying glass, by this former jeweler, including its very large formats. Michel Loeb has drawn parallels to his masters of painting, facetious but always majestic winks and the desire for paintings in the style of Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Edward Hopper, Hokusai.
Michel Loeb is a painter born in Saint-Cloud. He first trained as a jeweler and diamond dealer like his father and painted as an amateur. He devoted himself to painting from 1970, after his meeting with the famous art dealer Félix Vercel, who then took him under contract and exhibited him in Paris, New York and Tokyo. Galerie Felix Vercel in Paris (Avenue Matignon) and New York (Madison Avenue) showed artists as Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, Armand Guillaumin, Maurice Utrillo and Claude Venard.
He is part of School of Paris artists that included Marcel Cosson, Jean Jansem, Claude Salomon, Michel Kouliche, Bernard Buffet, Bernard Lorjou, Jean Dufy, and others. Naive art was then in fashion and his work enjoyed great success; he has prepared no less than one exhibition per year since this period. Recently he had the opportunity to present his work in Provence, Oslo or Shanghai. Since 1988, he has settled in Oppède, in the Luberon, among vineyards, scrubland and olive groves where he draws his inspiration. His work is simimilar in its childish naive appeal and is reminiscent of Henri Maik and Gustavo Novoa. In the French tradition of Séraphine de Senlis, Ferdinand Cheval, Henri Rousseau, Louis Vivin, Camille Bombois, Fernande Grossin, Jules Lefranc, Émile Blondel and René Rimbert. Since 1993, Michel Loeb has been represented in the south of France by the Pascal Lainé gallery.

Personal exhibitions
1963: Galerie Dauphine, Paris , Drapeau de la France
1965: Fernand Depas Gallery, Paris
1967: Gallery 93, Paris
1970-1988: Galerie Félix Vercel, Paris , France (alternating with New York ( Drapeau des États-Unis United States )Madison Avenue, 16 exhibitions)
1973: Group exhibition, Hôtel Saint-Georges, Beirut , Drapeau du Liban Lebanon
1977: Aleph Gallery, Paris, France
1980: Harris Fine Art Gallery, Los Angeles
1982: K. Levinston Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
1985: Galerie Weber, Geneva , Drapeau de la Suisse
1987: Galerie Daniel Varenne, Gstaad, Switzerland
1989: Laburthe Gallery, Paris, France
1990: Klein-Roncari Gallery, Paris
1990: Nissho Iwai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1991: Galerie 1900/2000 Chicago, “around Duchamp”
1991: Gallery 5, Bonnieux , France
1992: Galerie Klein-Roncari, Paris , France
1992: Hôtel de Rochegude , Avignon , France
1993: Pascal Lainé Gallery, Gordes , France
1994: Nathalie Seroussi Gallery, Paris , France
1994: Fiac , Paris , France
1995: Campredon Museum, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue ,
1995: You said bazaar , Galerie Pascal Lainé, Gordes ,
1996: Nathalie Seroussi Gallery, Paris , France
1997: Gallery 1900/2000, Chicago
1997: Maison Biehn, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue , France
1997: Fiac, Paris, France Galerie Daniel Varenne,
1998: Tribute to Félix Vercel, Paris, France
1998: Galerie Daniel Varenne, Geneva
1999: Zannetacci Gallery, Geneva
2000: Galerie Artema, Brussels, Belgium
2001: Galerie Félix Vercel, Paris
2003: Gérard Guerre Gallery, Avignon , France
2005: Darga & Lansberg Gallery, Paris, France
2005: Chart Gallery, Paris , France
2006-2007: Maison René Char, Campredon Museum L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue , France
2008: Galerie Félix Vercel, Paris , France
2008: Pascal Lainé Gallery, Ménerbes , France
2010: Loebjet found Galerie Pascal Lainé, Ménerbes ,
2011: A little safari Galerie Pascal Lainé, Ménerbes ,
2012: baroque loebjet Galerie Yu, Paris , France
2012: Dumonteil Gallery, Shanghai , Drapeau de la République populaire de Chine China
2013: This is not Galerie Pascal Lainé, Ménerbes ,
2014: Galerie Félix Vercel, Paris , France
2015: Small jets of childish works Pascal Lainé Gallery
2016: Passeurs de rêve , Return of Travel Gallery, L'Isle sur la Sorgue, France
2017: When art gets mixed up, Galerie Pascal Lainé See less