Vicky Colombet
Vicky Colombet
Monet series: #1396 (cobalt, green, bluish-Mars black)
(Série Monet: #1396 [cobalt, vert, bleuâtre-Mars, noir]) 2018
oil, pigments and alkyd on canvas
Private Collection
Vicky Colombet
Monet series: Night in the garden #1421
(black iron oxide, cobalt, green, black Ivory)
(Série Monet: Nuit dans le jardin #1421
[oxyde de fer noir, cobalt, vert, noir d'ivoirie]) 2019
oil, pigments and alkyd on canvas
Private Collection
Vicky Colombet, a Franco-American painter, was born in Paris in 1953. Having had studios in Barcelona, and subsequently in the village of Lasalle in the Cevennes mountains of south-central France, she now works and lives between Paris and
New York.
In 2017, at the invitation of the Musee Marmottan Monet in Paris-which holds the world's greatest collection of the work of Claude Monet (1840-1926) and is the direct legatee of the Impressionist's last descendant -Vicky Colombet entered into dialogue with the master. This involved four years of research and, in 2020, gave rise to the exhibition Unexpected Dialoyues-Monet/ Colombet: Paintiny Like the River (Les Dialoyues lnattendus-Monet/Colombet: Peindre Comme La Riviere). Their shared relationship with nature is their point of convergence. With Monet, painting becomes the translation of the motif through light and the visual impression; Colombet's pictures become the translation of a state, an inscape, freed of any direct reference. Where Monet dissolves form via perception, Colombet dissolves sensation in meditative abstraction. Her work is profoundly different from Monet's, but they both embody the same demand for presence in the world and for capturing the instant.