Our actions
2012: Creation of the Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund and development of the database of the Léon Delachaux catalogue raisonné
2013: Launch of the Endowment Fund’s first website
2014: First retrospective, Léon Delachaux (1850–1919), Au fil de…, displaying eighty works of art at the Association France-Amériques, Paris
2017: Publication of the first monograph of Léon Delachaux and lecture by Prof. Gabriel Weisberg (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis): “Léon Delachaux in context” on the occasion of the presentation of this monograph
("The Age of Reason as seen by painters in the 19th century")
Musée Fournaise, Chatou, 2018
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2018: Loan of The Affectionate Mother to the Musée Fournaise in Chatou (France), for the exhibition L’Âge de raison vu par les peintres au XIXe siècle
2019: Loan of The Banjo Player to the Mémorial ACTe in Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe, France), for the exhibition Le Modèle noir, de Géricault à Picasso
2021: Presentation by Marie Delachaux and Marie-Alice Loiseau, “The catalogue raisonné of the artist Léon Delachaux (1850-1919),” at the international online conference Artists’ Legacies: Preservation, Study, Dissemination, Institutionalization, Arpad Szenes – Vieira da Silva Foundation in Lisbon (Portugal)
2021: First issue of Carnets du Fonds de Dotation Léon Delachaux, an analysis of Delachaux’s letters to Carol Storck (1854–1926), Romanian sculptor and classmate at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia from 1880 to 1884
2022: Creation of the Léon Delachaux rose by the rose breeder Guillot (France)
2025: Launch of the new website for the Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund by Supersoniks
("Black models: from Géricault to Picasso")
Mémorial ACTe, Pointe-à-Pitre, 2019
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Association France-Amériques, Paris, 2014
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