The Temptation of St Anthony (After Flaubert), 2023, Oil Painting on Canvas, 85 x 91 in
LaMontagne Gallery is excited to present Salvatore Del Deo: Sinners, Saints, and Angels, an exhibition centered on The Temptation of St. Anthony of Thebes (After Flaubert) (2023), a monumental mural-scale painting that occupied the artist’s studio, and imagination, for nearly four decades. Inspired by Gustave Flaubert’s novel, Del Deo recognized in Saint Anthony’s inner visions a parallel to the artist’s own creative struggle, where doubt, temptation, and endurance arise from within. Begun in the early 1980s and left unfinished for decades, the painting was finally completed in 2023, when, at ninety-five, Del Deo returned to the canvas with renewed clarity and urgency. Shown publicly for the first time in its completed form, the work anchors an exhibition of large-scale allegorical paintings that transform personal memory, collective conflict, and historical witness into charged symbolic tableaux, affirming Del Deo’s singular vision and lifelong engagement with the tension between darkness and revelation.
Opening Reception: Friday, February 13th, 5 - 8 pm
Closing: Saturday, March 7th, 2026