A Touch of Paris
A Touch of Paris Close to Home
The Hermitage Inn is already renowned for its 40,000-plus-bottle wine cellar and award-winning menu, as well as outdoor offerings of cross-country skiing, ice skating, snowshoeing, fly fishing and more, depending on the season.
But the inn is one-of-a-kind in the world of fine art and collectibles—one of the most complete collections of the celebrated French artist Michel Delacroix—a French original—an acclaimed master of the naïf tradition, and one of the most popular artists in the world today. Some might even call it a Delacroix museum.
Recently, Southern Vermont Arts & Living’s publisher and art director attended an evening filled with art, food and wine at The Hermitage Inn as part of a special celebration to meet the artist in person. Nearly 100 patrons from all over New England enjoyed a wonderful five-course gourmet meal with the most exquisite wine pairings and had the opportunity to purchase original pieces that adorned the walls. Guests also received a one-color, numbered serigraph featuring The Hermitage Inn, signed by the artist.
A self-styled “painter of dreams and of the poetic past,” Delacroix has devoted five decades to painting a city he calls “the Paris of then” — the place where he was born, where he spent his boyhood. These works, renowned for their graceful balance of “the earthy and the urban, the cosmic and the ordinary,” have captivated private collectors, museums and ordinary people alike throughout the world, earning the artist both universal acclaim and numerous awards.
In the U.S. alone, Delacroix’s work has been featured in over 300 solo exhibitions from New York, Boston and Washington, to Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. Abroad, his work has been exhibited throughout Europe and Japan, and forms part of the permanent collections of the Musée International d’Art Naïf and the Fondation Max Fourny in Paris — and of private collections around the globe.
Delacroix is still producing new, original paintings for his solo exhibitions world wide.
Innkeeper Steven O’Hern says that Delacroix will return for another special evening. This is an event not to miss. (Learn more at axelle.com)
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