BIOGRAPHY
Delissalde is an American sculptor currently living in Denver, Colorado. He discovered and cultivated his intense love for the visual arts early in his life studying drawing, human anatomy and painting at the ATELIER GUILLMAN under artist painter M. Guillen — 1971 to 1978 — and art history and sculpture at the NATIONAL SCHOOL OF SCULPTURE AND PAINTING — 1977 to 1978 — in Mexico City, the city of his birth.
Delissalde early training in classical European sculpting and painting and his formal academic degrees in the fields of chemical engineering (B.Sc.), theology (Th.M.) and philosophy (Ph.D.), show him as an artist genuinely and relentlessly engaged in the human quest for Beauty. His designs are nurtured through a constant study of sculpture in art museums and public monuments throughout the United States and Europe.
Delissalde’s sculptures are mainly in bronze and his genre of choice is modern figurative. His work announces and transmits the most intense sentiments experienced by the human condition. A recent work is a multi-sculpture public project — four monumental bronze sculptures commissioned by the State of Wyoming — installed in the interior of the Dome of the Capitol Building in July 2019.
Since 2008 the artist works in his atelier in Denver; he also designs his works in his atelier in Aix-en-Provence, France. His work is prized by collectors in the United States, France, Spain, Portugal and Mexico.
RESUME
ON PUBLIC DISPLAY
2019 Four monumental allegories: Truth, Justice, Courage, and Hope, in the rotunda of the State Capitol of Wyoming, USA
2019 Portrait of Monsieur Jerome Lewis, Downing Street Foundation, Denver, Colorado
2016 I thirst, Church of San Vicente, City of San Sebastian, SPAIN
2014 Love one another, Colorado Christian College, Denver, Colorado
2013 Portrait of Chancellor V. Grounds, Denver Theological Seminary, Denver, Colorado
IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
2018 I thirst, Denver, Colorado
2017 I thirst, San Sebastian, SPAIN
2017 Head of “Victoria”, Mexico City, MEXICO
2017 I thirst, Miami, Florida
2017 I thirst, Westminster, Colorado
2017 I thirst, Miami, Florida
2017 I thirst, Greenwood Village, Colorado
2016 The emigrant, Denver, Colorado
2016 Femenine nude sitting, Denver, Colorado
2015 Guardian angel, Denver, Colorado
2015 Beethoven, Mexico City, MEXICO
2015 La Main de Dieu, City of San Sebastian, SPAIN
2014 That you love one another, Pueblo, Colorado
2013 Magdalene, Cherry Hills, Colorado
2012 Magdalene, Barcelona, SPAIN
2012 Magdalene, Aix-en-Provence, FRANCE
2012 Deborah, Aix-en-Provence, FRANCE
2012 Awakening, Cherry Hills, Colorado
2012 That you love one another, Denver, Colorado
2012 Dreamer, Lisbon, PORTUGAL
2011 Magdalene, Barcelona, SPAIN
2011 Portrait, Greenwood Village, Colorado
2011 I shall rise again, Denver, Colorado
2011 Awakening, Cherry Creek, Colorado
2010 Bust portrait, Denver, Colorado
2010 The Man of Galilee, Paris, FRANCE
2010 La Main de Dieu, Key Biscayne, Florida
2010 The Man of Galilee, Greenwood Village and Castle Rock, Colorado
2010 La Main de Dieu, Greenwood Village, Colorado
2010 La Main de Dieu, Paris, FRANCE
2010 La Main de Dieu, Barcelona, SPAIN
2010 The Man of Galilee, Englewood, Colorado
2010 The Man of Galilee, City of San Sebastian, SPAIN
2010 The Man of Galilee, Mexico City, MEXICO
2009 The Man of Galilee, Parker, Colorado
2009 Bust portrait, Monsieur Chetter Latcham, Denver, Colorado
2009 Bust portrait, Monsieur Gaylord Layton, Parker, Colorado
2009 Deborah, Avon, Colorado