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Evening Light, Gigondas, 2026
Oil on Linen
43 x 35.5
Oil on Linen
Born in Los Angeles, Marc Dalessio studied oil painting at UC Santa Cruz, where his training drew on the Californian Impressionists who settled in the Monterey Bay area following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. He later moved to Florence to study portrait painting at Charles H. Cecil Studios, a traditional atelier tracing its lineage through R. H. Ives Gammell and William Paxton to the École des Beaux-Arts under Jean-Léon Gérôme.
Cecil instilled in his students a Nietzschean view of artistic creation: that great work emerges from the tension between Apollonian intellect – draftsmanship honed through years of rigorous study – and raw Dionysian emotion, instinct and inspiration. Dalessio’s landscapes seek to embody this balance, uniting the luminous color of Californian Impressionism with the exacting draftsmanship of the Boston School.
His philosophy is further shaped by Pico della Mirandola’s Oration on the Dignity of Man, which gave rise to the guiding conviction that the painter is nature perceiving and revering itself. He strives to set aside ego and personal style, allowing the observed world to speak through the artist.
43 x 35.5
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Evening Light, Gigondas, 2026
Oil on Linen
43 x 35.5
Born in Los Angeles, Marc Dalessio studied oil painting at UC Santa Cruz, where his training drew on the Californian Impressionists who settled in the Monterey Bay area following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. He later moved to Florence to study portrait painting at Charles H. Cecil Studios, a traditional atelier tracing its lineage through R. H. Ives Gammell and William Paxton to the École des Beaux-Arts under Jean-Léon Gérôme.
Cecil instilled in his students a Nietzschean view of artistic creation: that great work emerges from the tension between Apollonian intellect – draftsmanship honed through years of rigorous study – and raw Dionysian emotion, instinct and inspiration. Dalessio’s landscapes seek to embody this balance, uniting the luminous color of Californian Impressionism with the exacting draftsmanship of the Boston School.
His philosophy is further shaped by Pico della Mirandola’s Oration on the Dignity of Man, which gave rise to the guiding conviction that the painter is nature perceiving and revering itself. He strives to set aside ego and personal style, allowing the observed world to speak through the artist.
43 x 35.5
Oil on Linen
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Evening Light, Gigondas, 2026
Oil on Linen
43 x 35.5
Oil on Linen Mounted on Cradled Panel
25 x 30
Born in Los Angeles, Marc Dalessio studied oil painting at UC Santa Cruz, where his training drew on the Californian Impressionists who settled in the Monterey Bay area following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. He later moved to Florence to study portrait painting at Charles H. Cecil Studios, a traditional atelier tracing its lineage through R. H. Ives Gammell and William Paxton to the École des Beaux-Arts under Jean-Léon Gérôme.
Cecil instilled in his students a Nietzschean view of artistic creation: that great work emerges from the tension between Apollonian intellect – draftsmanship honed through years of rigorous study – and raw Dionysian emotion, instinct and inspiration. Dalessio’s landscapes seek to embody this balance, uniting the luminous color of Californian Impressionism with the exacting draftsmanship of the Boston School.
His philosophy is further shaped by Pico della Mirandola’s Oration on the Dignity of Man, which gave rise to the guiding conviction that the painter is nature perceiving and revering itself. He strives to set aside ego and personal style, allowing the observed world to speak through the artist.