THE PROJECT

I have been longing to bring my paintings together in a book, it was February and I was thinking of a little book. In March, Covid landed in our lives... I started to look back through thirty years of my work. A long selection process, until slowly, finding a balance and the smooth running of the images. The days passing, the work grew bigger, the little book became a 144-page book - a retrospective.

I wanted it white, white like a canvas before the first touch of paint.

THE BOOK

Published by éditions Empreintes & Digitales, this classy and sober 10" x 11" book comes with a contemporary cover, a binding with a square back sewn glued, 144 inside pages printed on a soft 170g satin paper. An edition of 500 copies. Essays are written by Paul Powell and Michel Spielmann both translated in English and French. More than 100 paintings selected from 30 years of work, some of which are accompanied by selected words and poems.

In the book, different periods and series rub shoulders. Here, duality breathes deeply and strong feminine energy dominates from one life to the next, multiple, moving and often wrapped in gentle violence. The Twin inside -

Starting almost 8 months ago, we worked hand in hand with a fantastic art advisor and an amazing graphic designer.

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QUICK LOOK AT THE BOOK

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I'm very glad to offer a fairly wide choice of rewards, giving you the opportunity to find the best deal at a very special price exclusively available during the limited time of our fundraiser. Pick the book alone or the book with an Archival Pigment fine art print. Small, large, or even bigger, all are printed on a superb thick Hannemühle 310gr paper, one of the highest museum-quality paper and features only archival inks.

Each print is sprayed with a U.V. protectant. Prints are signed and numbered by the artist. Edition of 30 for the 20" x 20" and 20" x 24". Edition of 8 for the 20" x 37" prints.

Your large print is rolled in a rigid mailing tube for greatest protection during shipping.

Books will be shipped by the first week of December 2020.
The large prints can be shipped by mid-November 2020.

PAINTER CLAIRE PETIT

"Born to an English mother and French father, Claire Petit is a self-taught painter who lives and works mainly in East of France when she doesn’t set up her art studio overseas. From 1989 she travels between France and the United States. First solo show in 1999 at Gallery 24 in NYC, managed at that time by Yossi Milo. She’ll meet with Louise Bourgeois during her famous Sunday afternoons in her Chelsea house. In 2004 her work is represented and exhibited at the Grant Gallery in Soho. In 2005, she travels to Mexico where she sets up her art studio for three months. From 2005 to 2010, her Childhood series is represented and exhibited by the Opera Gallery in New York City and showed at the Opera Gallery in Miami. She travels and sets up her studio in New York regularly. From 2010 her work is exhibited in Paris, Bruxelles, Metz, Luxembourg and Nancy where she lives. Her work is part of private & prestigious art collection in Europe and the United States."

More work : http://clairepetit.com

ART BOOK / THE PAINTING OF CLAIRE PETIT

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