Mid 20th Century Vintage Abstract Landscape Painting of Women in Field, Oil on Paper. By French artist Nancy Delouis

Nancy Delouis, born in 1941, is a French Postwar artist renowned for her vibrant use of color and form. Her Post-Impressionism style of her paintings, characterized by the liberating power of these elements, often depict interior scenes and still lifes that blend the exotic with the exquisite. Delouis's works are rich in interwoven patterns and textures, frequently incised into the surface with the point of her brush. Infused with light and saturated colors, her style is distinctly French, drawing on the aesthetic traditions of artists like Bonnard, Vuillard, Renoir, Matisse, and Gauguin (self-claimed as being very important influences for her).

Delouis's paintings often convey a genuine sense of reserve beneath their vivid surfaces. Her subjects, primarily women, are portrayed reading, reflecting, working, or bathing, alone or in groups, always exuding an air of calm self-possession. This sense of independence suggests that these women would continue their activities even without an audience. This distancing effect is also present in her depictions of more social settings, such as West African marketplaces or Japonisme interiors, where figures and objects are given almost equal emphasis, engaging in a lively interplay of color, form, and pattern.