Coinciding with “Bastille Day”, the French Fourth Of July ( sort of…) I am releasing “ Vive la Liberté!” This giclee print in an edition of 200 measures 20×28 in / 51×71 cm and is printed on museum quality archival paper. It is now available as a “Bastille Day Promotion” for US$ 89 only – until Dayal Studio Fineline Editions, our online store, opens later this month. We accept V/MC/AX and PayPal. Please email Dayal Studio if you are interested. This print will later retail for US$129 unless it sells out before the store opens.
When I was living in Paris about three decades ago, as a free-spirited student and mostly broke, I always “found” enough money to visit the Louvre on a regular basis. As I was standing in front of Eugène Delacroix’s 1830 painting “La liberté guidant le peuple – Liberty Leading The People” it became clear to me that I am not only going to paint nice and beautiful things in my life as an artist. But that I also somehow have a responsibility to history, interpreting and preserving my impressions about life and events during my own lifetime, even if I would not at the moment understand the full extent or even tragedy of it.
In late 2000 I was commissioned to recreate this famous and powerful image in my signature engraving style for yet another Technicolor movie poster of “Les Miserable”.
I have since changed the flag for repurposing of the image, but it is noteworthy that Delacroix had painted himself into his own painting holding a rifle, looking at a dead soldier. I wonder what he was thinking?
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