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\u2018Un songe un peu moins inconstant\u2019 Oil on canvas 38\u00d738\u2033 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the early summer of 1817, a group of French settlers arrived in the wilderness of what would become southwest Alabama. They were Bonapartist exiles- among them Napoloeon\u2019s foremost generals and aristocrats, forced to leave France after his final defeat. Where the Black Warrior and Tombigbee rivers meet, they founded the town of Demopolis, but their efforts to cultivate a \u2018vine and olive colony\u2019 there were doomed from the start.<\/p>\n

Watch the 8 minute David Poag documentary on my Demopolis project here<\/a><\/p>\n

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This story brought me to the South in 1988. Back then, I wanted to write about it. Only late this summer, decades later, did it occur to me that I should paint the story instead. Or rather the symbolic figure of one settler- Madame Raoul, the Marchioness de Sinabaldi. And it was important for me to paint the myth more than anything- how I imagined, how I dreamed of her story as an immigrant in the New World.<\/p>\n

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‘Il me semble que je r\u00eave’ (the Marchioness dreams of escape) 2017 (Private Collection)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For information on how this series is being created please visit my blog page.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Il me Semble Que je Reve\u2019 2015 (Private Collection)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u2018Tous sont sujets\u2019 Oil on canvas 48\u00d750\u2033 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u2018Son premier soin\u2019 Oil on canvas 72\u00d738\u2033 2016 (Private Collection)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Exile’s Chair 24×24″ 2019 (Private Collection)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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‘The Exile’s Path’ 24×24″ 2019 (Private Collection)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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‘The Exile’ 24×18″ 2019 (Private collection)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Madame Raoul, Study Oil on linen (Private Collection)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Study, Demopolis series Oil on linen (Private Collection)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MINIATURES<\/p>\n

My research led me to the discovery that a miniature existed of Madame Raoul, painted by Cabrera upon her arrival in Guatemala. (See related blogs) I could not locate an image of the portrait, so I playfully imagined some possibilities. Below are a few examples:<\/p>\n

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