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Yann Lacroix

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Chapelle, 2025
Chapelle, 2025
Oil on canvas
230 x 185 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2025006
Blue Water, 2025
Blue Water, 2025
Huile sur toile
150 x 130 cm
Titles, signed and dated at the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2025001
Pink Lady, 2025
Pink Lady, 2025
Oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2025005
Canada, 2025
Canada, 2025
Oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2025003
Golden, 2025
Golden, 2025
Oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2025004
Entre-temps, 2024
Entre-temps, 2024
Oil on canvas
162 x 130 cm
Signed, dated, titled on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2024010
Dream of Newton, 2024
Dream of Newton, 2024
Oil on canvas
150 x 130 cm
Titled, signed, dated on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2024028
Florescence, 2024
Florescence, 2024
Oil on canvas
150 x 130 cm
Signed, dated, titled on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2024011
Within the dephts, 2024
Within the dephts, 2024
Oil on canvas
150 x 130 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2024009
Dream, 2024
Dream, 2024
Oil on canvas
76 x 61 cm
Signed, dated on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2024025
Le palais de la mémoire, 2024
Le palais de la mémoire, 2024
Oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
Signed, dated, titled on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2024024
Cloud 2, 2024
Cloud 2, 2024
Oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
Titled, signed and dated at the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2024030
La maison dieu, 2024
La maison dieu, 2024
Oil on canvas
54 x 65 cm
Signed, dated, titled on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2024029
Maison dieu II, 2024
Maison dieu II, 2024
Oil on canvas
41 x 33 cm
Signed, dated, titled on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2024019
Yann Lacroix
Maison dieu II, 2024
Oil on canvas
41 x 33 cm
Signed, dated, titled on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2024019
Eden, 2024
Eden, 2024
Oil on canvas
22 x 27 cm
signed, dated, titled on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2024017
Oranger, 2024
Oranger, 2024
Oil on canvas
22 x 27 cm
signed, dated, titled on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2024018
Gate, 2024
Gate, 2024
Oil on canvas
35 x 27 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2024034
Parvis, 2024
Parvis, 2024
Oil on canvas
33 x 41 cm
Titled, dated and signed at the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2024032
Impression fugitive II, 2024
Impression fugitive II, 2024
Oil on canvas
22 x 27 cm
Signed, dated, titled on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2024012
Sans titre, 2024
Sans titre, 2024
Oil on canvas
27 x 35 cm
Signed, dated, titled on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2024023
Drapés, 2024
Drapés, 2024
Oil on canvas
27 x 50 cm
Signed, dated, titled on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2024027
Quadrilobe, 2024
Quadrilobe, 2024
Oil on canvas
41 x 33 cm
signed, dated, titled on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2024005
Lugdunum, 2023
Lugdunum, 2023
Oil on canvas
320 x 180 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2023029
Barroco, 2023
Barroco, 2023
Oil on canvas
180 x 150 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2023024
Manilla, 2023
Manilla, 2023
Oil on canvas
180 x 150 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2023025
Elévation, 2023
Elévation, 2023
Oil on canvas
150 x 130 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2023013
Stay, 2023
Stay, 2023
Oil on canvas
150 x 130 cm
Tiltled, signed and dated at the back
© Nicolas Brasseur
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2023003
Interiorité, 2023
Interiorité, 2023
Oil on canvas
150 x 130 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2023008
Presence of mind, 2023
Presence of mind, 2023
Oil on canvas
130 x 150 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2023021
Dream water, 2023
Dream water, 2023
Oil on canvas
150 x 130 cm
Signed, titled and dated at the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2023009
Vanikoro, 2023
Vanikoro, 2023
Oil on canvas
150 x 130 cm
Signed, titled and dated at the back
© Nicolas Brasseur
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2023001
Moment of silence, 2023
Moment of silence, 2023
Oil on canvas
150 x 130 cm
Signed, titled and dated at the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2023005
Impression fugitive, 2023
Impression fugitive, 2023
Oil on canvas
150 x 130 cm
Titled, signed and dated on the back
© Nicolas Brasseur
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2023002
Apple tree, 2023
Apple tree, 2023
Oil on canvas
150 x 130 cm
Signed, titled and dated at the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2023006
Cumulonimbus, 2023
Cumulonimbus, 2023
Oil on canvas
150 x 130 cm
Signed, titled and dated at the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2023007
Moistness, 2023
Moistness, 2023
Oil on canvas
65 x 54 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2023014
Point de vue II, 2023
Point de vue II, 2023
Oil on canvas
65 x 54 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2023026
Gunnera Manicata, 2023
Gunnera Manicata, 2023
Oil on canvas
35 x 27 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2023019
Fra, 2023
Fra, 2023
Oil on canvas
27 x 22 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2023016
Memento, 2023
Memento, 2023
Oil on canvas
27 x 35 cm
Titled, signed and dated at the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2023012
Court yard, 2023
Court yard, 2023
Oil on canvas
27 x 22 cm
Signed, titled and dated at the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2023004
Résonance, 2022
Résonance, 2022
Oil on canvas
76 x 61 cm
Titled, dated and signed on the back
© A. Mole
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2022017
Casus Belli, 2021
Casus Belli, 2021
Oil on canvas
Diptych, 185 x 310 cm
Dated, titled and signed on the back
© Nicolas Brasseur
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2021010

Dans Casus Belli, Yann Lacroix réinvestit les codes de la peinture d'histoire avec un regard contemporain. Le format monumental, agencé à la manière d'un diptyque, fait penser aux grandes scènes de bataille de la Renaissance mais il s'agit davantage ici d'une latence, d'une tension dans l'attente de quelque chose qui se prépare. La spectacularisation du combat et du chaos laisse ainsi place à des silhouettes évanescentes et immobiles de chevaliers sans visage sur leurs montures. De cette impassibilité émergent des armoiries héraldiques et des étendards écarlates, vestiges d'un passé fantasmé.

Figure, 2022
Figure, 2022
Oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
Dated, titled and signed on the back
© Nicolas Brasseur
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2022005

Inspiré par les représentations d’écus héraldiques et les peintures médiévales de champs de bataille, cette série est consacrées aux figures des chevaliers. À contre-courant des grandes peintures d’histoire, ces toiles s’attardent sur des figures de chevaliers isolés, proposant des représentations intimes dans des formats carrés. Formant des silhouettes sans visages, ils apparaissent à la surface de la toile marquée par des jeux de transparence, comme des fantômes émergents de souvenirs lointains et flottants dans des paysages inexistants.

Haute-Auvergne, 2022
Haute-Auvergne, 2022
Oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
Dated, titled and signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2022014
Le voyageur, 2022
Le voyageur, 2022
Oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
Dated, titled and signed on the back
© Nicolas Brasseur
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2022006

Inspiré par les représentations d’écus héraldiques et les peintures médiévales de champs de bataille, cette série est consacrées aux figures des chevaliers. À contre-courant des grandes peintures d’histoire, ces toiles s’attardent sur des figures de chevaliers isolés, proposant des représentations intimes dans des formats carrés. Formant des silhouettes sans visages, ils apparaissent à la surface de la toile marquée par des jeux de transparence, comme des fantômes émergents de souvenirs lointains et flottants dans des paysages inexistants.

Citadelle, 2022
Citadelle, 2022
Oil on canvas
125 x 150 cm
Dated, titled and signed on the back
© Nicolas Brasseur
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2022009

Dans cette série, Yann Lacroix dépeint un univers ancestral, rêvé et fantasmé, d'où surgissent des silhouettes fantomatiques de chevaliers et de forteresses entourés de végétation. Ils deviennent autant de motifs historiques d'un temps révolu, ressuscités par une réinterprétation de la peinture d'histoire en proie à l'onirisme et l'imaginaire.

Georges de Lydda, 2022
Georges de Lydda, 2022
Oil on canvas
150 x 125 cm
Dated, titled and signed on the back
© Nicolas Brasseur
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2022002

Dans cette série, Yann Lacroix dépeint un univers ancestral, rêvé et fantasmé, d’où surgissent des silhouettes fantomatiques de chevaliers et de forteresses entourés de végétation. Ils deviennent autant de motifs historiques d’un temps révolu, ressuscités par une réinterprétation de la peinture d’histoire en proie à l’onirisme et l’imaginaire.

Jeux, 2021
Jeux, 2021
Oil on canvas
150 x 180 cm
signed, titled, dated at the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2021005
Mist, 2021
Mist, 2021
Oil on canvas
162 x 130 cm
Titled, dated, signed at the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2021002

From his memories (images gleaned from the Internet, trips abroad, daily environment...), Yann Lacroix paints deliberately composite landscapes, inhabited by exotic vegetation, tropical greenhouses and swimming pools, made up of their own artificiality and empty of human presence but whose traces of a past or possible history bring sensuality and life: a reflection on heterotopias that is articulated through these places that are both phantasmagoriated and borrowed from the poetry of everyday life like allegories in the painting itself.

Murmure, 2021
Murmure, 2021
Oil on canvas
24 x 32 cm
signed, titled, dated at the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2021008
Pommes, 2020
Pommes, 2020
oil on canvas
152 x 128 cm
signed at the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020026
Hespérides, 2020
Hespérides, 2020
oil on canvas
146 x 114 cm
titled, dated, signed at the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020030

Painted for the exhibition on the gallery's five-year anniversary, the canvas Hespérides leads us into a garden with a lush, and almost kitschy vegetation. It invokes the luxuriance of Babylonian gardens in Yann Lacroix's imaginary. While certain blurred areas give a hazy and unstable aspect to the whole scene, the intensity of the light is concentrated on five apples. The latter are an explicit reference to the golden fruits kept by Laon in the Hesperides? garden. At the limit of artificiality, the artist questions, through this utopian landscape, the status of pictorial representation by invoking mythological references and a common imaginary that gives it a timeless dimension.

Sun kissed, 2020
Sun kissed, 2020
OIl on canvas
100 x 88 cm
Signed, titled, dated on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020003

À partir de ses souvenirs (images glanées sur Internet, séjours à l'étranger, environnement quotidien), Yann Lacroix peint des paysages volontairement composites, habités de végétation exotique, de serres tropicales et de piscines, constitués de leur propre artificialité et vides de présence humaine mais dont la trace d'une histoire passée ou possible amène sensualité et vie : une réflexion sur les hétérotopies qui s'articule par le biais de ces lieux à la fois fantasmés et emprunts d'une poésie du quotidien comme des allégories de la peinture même.

Retour, 2020
Retour, 2020
Oil on canvas
280 x 200 cm
signed, titled, dated on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020001

From his memories (images gleaned from the Internet, trips abroad, daily environment...), Yann Lacroix paints deliberately composite landscapes, inhabited by exotic vegetation, tropical greenhouses and swimming pools, made up of their own artificiality and empty of human presence but whose traces of a past or possible history bring sensuality and life: a reflection on heterotopias that is articulated through these places that are both phantasmagoriated and borrowed from the poetry of everyday life like allegories in the painting itself.

Sans titre, 2020
Sans titre, 2020
Oil on canvas
35 x 27 cm
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020024
Calathea, 2020
Calathea, 2020
Oil on canvas
213 x 174 cm
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020009

À partir de ses souvenirs (images glanées sur Internet, séjours à l'étranger, environnement quotidien), Yann Lacroix peint des paysages volontairement composites, habités de végétation exotique, de serres tropicales et de piscines, constitués de leur propre artificialité et vides de présence humaine mais dont la trace d'une histoire passée ou possible amène sensualité et vie: une réflexion sur les hétérotopies qui s'articule par le biais de ces lieux à la fois fantasmés et emprunts d?une poésie du quotidien comme des allégories de la peinture même.

Sans titre, 2020
Sans titre, 2020
Oil on canvas
117 x 87 cm
Signed, titled, dated on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020021

À partir de ses souvenirs (images glanées sur Internet, séjours à l'étranger, environnement quotidien), Yann Lacroix peint des paysages volontairement composites, habités de végétation exotique, de serres tropicales et de piscines, constitués de leur propre artificialité et vides de présence humaine mais dont la trace d'une histoire passée ou possible amène sensualité et vie : une réflexion sur les hétérotopies qui s'articule par le biais de ces lieux à la fois fantasmés et emprunts d'une poésie du quotidien comme des allégories de la peinture même.

Sans titre, 2020
Sans titre, 2020
Oil on canvas
27 x 35 cm
Dated, titled and signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020014
Sans titre, 2020
Sans titre, 2020
Oil on canvas
146 x 114 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020017
Dirty pool, 2020
Dirty pool, 2020
Oil on canvas
22 x 27 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020012
Apertura, 2020
Apertura, 2020
Oil on canvas
27 x 22 cm
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020007
Junk space, 2020
Junk space, 2020
Oil on canvas
270 x 220 cm
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020016

From his memories (images gleaned from the Internet, trips abroad, daily environment...), Yann Lacroix paints deliberately composite landscapes, inhabited by exotic vegetation, tropical greenhouses and swimming pools, made up of their own artificiality and empty of human presence but whose traces of a past or possible history bring sensuality and life: a reflection on heterotopias that is articulated through these places that are both phantasmagoriated and borrowed from the poetry of everyday life like allegories in the painting itself.

Espace, 2020
Espace, 2020
Oil on canvas
263 x 194 cm
Signed, titled, dated on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2020002
Cocoa, 2019
Cocoa, 2019
Oil on canvas
146 x 114 cm
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2019024
Sans titre (Room with a stranger view), 2019
Sans titre (Room with a stranger view), 2019
Oil on canvas
100 x 81 cm
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2019016

Exhibition: 
- "Cela ne m'est pas inconnu", Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2019

Sans titre, 2019
Sans titre, 2019
Oil on canvas
72,8 x 63 inch
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2019015

Exhibition: 
- "Cela ne m'est pas inconnu", Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2019

Le blues du figuier, 2019
Le blues du figuier, 2019
Oil on canvas
230 x 185 cm
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2019005

À partir de ses souvenirs (images glanées sur Internet, séjours à l'étranger, environnement quotidien...), Yann Lacroix peint des paysages volontairement composites, habités de végétation exotique, de serres tropicales et de piscines, constitués de leur propre artificialité et vides de présence humaine mais dont la trace d'une histoire passée ou possible amène sensualité et vie : une réflexion sur les hétérotopies qui s'articule par le biais de ces lieux à la fois fantasmés et emprunts d'une poésie du quotidien comme des allégories de la peinture même.

The summer days have gone, 2019
The summer days have gone, 2019
Oil on canvas - diptych
240 x 380 cm
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2019009
Sans titre, 2019
Sans titre, 2019
Oil on canvas
9,5 x 12,6 inch
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2019018

Exhibition: 
- "Cela ne m'est pas inconnu", Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2019

Sunday Afternoon, 2019
Sunday Afternoon, 2019
Oil on canvas
63 x 72,8 inch
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2019012

Exhibition: 
- "Cela ne m'est pas inconnu", Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2019

Scratch marks, 2019
Scratch marks, 2019
Oil on wood
21,6 x 18 inch
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2019010

Exhibition: 
- "Cela ne m'est pas inconnu", Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2019

India Song, 2018
India Song, 2018
Oil on canvas
72,8 x 63 inch
Signed on the back
Enquiries about work INV Nbr. YL2018003

Exhibition: 
- "Cela ne m'est pas inconnu", Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France, 2019

Cipango, 2018
Cipango, 2018
Oil on canvas
22 x 27 cm
Blue Lagoon, 2017
Blue Lagoon, 2017
Oil on canvas
37 x 46 cm
Silent Pool, 2017
Silent Pool, 2017
Oil on canvas
174 x 203 cm

Exhibition :

- "Paysage avec figure absente", Domaine M, Cérilly, France, 2017

The bliss, 2017
The bliss, 2017
Oil on canvas
195 x 240 cm
Conservatory, 2016
Conservatory, 2016
Oil on canvas
200 x 135 cm
Crystal house, 2016
Crystal house, 2016
Oil on canvas
153 x 128 cm
Nice place for good value and the swimming pool was clean, 2016
Nice place for good value and the swimming pool was clean, 2016
Oil on canvas
230 x 200 cm
Palissade, 2016
Palissade, 2016
Oil on canvas
22 x 27 cm

Yann Lacroix was born in 1986. He lives and works in Paris. Graduated from the Fine Arts School in Clermont-Ferrand, he exclusively practices painting.
Yann Lacroix's landscapes deploy an utopian and fantasized iconography, guided by his memories of trips and the potential memory of these silent places. Their luxuriant appearance is reminiscent of the most popular travel destinations, which have become symptomatic of a desire to reconnect with a lost paradise, causing paradoxically the creation of artificial spaces. In his works, these places are transformed into a mirror of painting punctuated by the play of appearances. The blurred areas contrast with the detailed as a research around the potential evanescent nature of the images. Like metaphors of the process of memory, Yann Lacroix's works thus combine blurred spaces and particularly precise areas, creating strong contrasts.
Therefore, based on his memories (images gleaned from the Internet, stays abroad, everyday environment ...), the artist paints voluntarily composite landscapes, inhabited by exotic vegetation, tropical greenhouses and pools, made up of their own artificiality and empty of human presence, but whose trace of past or possible history brings sensuality and life : a reflection on heterotopias which takes form through these places both fantasized and borrowed from a poetry of everyday life as allegories of the painting itself.
First noticed during the 63rd Salon de Montrouge in 2018, Yann Lacroix has taken part in numerous exhibitions in France and abroad: in England, Poland, Spain, the Netherlands, Thailand, Tunisia, Hong Kong, and Dubai. He has been awarded numerous grants and residencies, including recently the Abbaye de Fontevraud in 2023 and the Domaine des Oseraies in 2024. He was a resident at Casa de Velázquez in 2019.


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