November 2000,
Courcelles Les Gisors, France.
Acrylic
on canvas 32 x 51 inches (81 x 130 cm)
Private Collection, Miami Beach.
Story:
My 12 years old son spent one
year in France, in 6th grade in the college Victor
Hugo in Gisors. We regularly missed the school-bus,
we packed up in the brave little Fiat-Uno and we
rushed on the 10 miles trip to the college, experimenting
with various itineraries. The favorite one was the
road going through Dangu and Courcelles-les-Gisors.
2000 was a rainy year in Normandie, there was this
flat bottom valley of river Epte fill up with water,
with white (and fat) swans, egrets, crazy grass,
everything very much like our good old-Everglades
but gators. Then, this sinuous slope toward
Courcelles, bordered with towering poplars.
In November, between two trips,
I set up my easel just there, sheltered by a calvary,
virgin Mary, the holly cross and fat chestnut trees.
But was I safe?
This dangerous curve, with
no visibility, revealed itself to be a really exiting
and fun location . The local race-track for the
honest French citizen, constantly speeding downhill
at 90 miles an hour trough the rain and tourbillons
of wet golden leaves.
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