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Elisabeth Colombia: The Sovereign of Art in Mougins

On a calm morning in the village of Mougins, we had a inédite encounter right in the heart of it where sunlight drapes over stone walls and the Mediterranean whispers through olive trees, with a new chapter of art history unfolding. Elisabeth Colomba, the French-born, New York-based artist whose canvases merge the mastery of classical painting with the urgency of modern identity, arrives on the Riviera with "Réminiscence" - her first major institutional solo exhibition in Europe. Hosted by the newly inaugurated FAMM (Femmes Artistes du Musée de Mougins), this exhibition is more than an artistic event; it is a dialogue between time, technique, and truth. A Return Home: From Paris to New York, Back to the RivieraBorn in Épinay-sur-Seine to Martiniquais parents, Elisabeth Colomba carries a lineage of both diaspora and belonging. Trained at the prestigious École Estienne and École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, her early years were steeped in the discipline of the Old Masters - meticulous layering, chiaroscuro, compositional balance. Yet even in those academic corridors, she sensed a silence: the absence of Black figures from the canonical visual language.Her migration to New York became an act of liberation. After years as a storyboard illustrator in Los Angeles, she