Family Turns Out In Force As Micheline Connery Launches Her Art Exhibition in Washington
Micheline and husband Sean
Sean Connery took a back seat as his Wife Micheline stepped into the limelight with an exhibition of 14 of her
paintings at thye National Museum of Woman in the Arts in Washington. "I've had such a hectic life with Sean
that until now I've had no time to show or sell any of my work" She said "I'm very excited and a little
nervous about the whole thing"
Although she abandoned a successful career as an artist when she met Sean in1970, Micheline continued to paint privately and amoung her works on dispaly are a 1985 portrait of Sean's son Jason - and Micheline's personal favourite - one of the Bond Actor snoozing in a chair in his dressing gown.
"I like painting Sean very much, showing the changes over the years" reveals Micheline. "He still has a great face. He has just aged so well"
The couple's four children from previous marraiges all flew in to attend the opening, while Sean hired a private plane from Toronto - where he is filming Finding Forrester - for his Wife's special day.
Nice to see the name on the exhibition
Micheline Roquebrune Connery, actor Sean Connery's wife took more than 30 of her
paintings to a Rome show
May 31, 2001
Actor Sean Connery's wife for three decades, Tunisian-born Micheline Roquebrune Connery, took more than 30 of her
paintings to a Rome show Wednesday, where the first on-screen James Bond for once plays only second fiddle. "I'm
perfectly happy in my supporting role, that's the reason why I'm here," Connery said at a press conference
a day before the official opening of the art show.
"I'm very small, but in my head I'm six-foot-two," the attractive artist said as journalists wondered
about her life in the shadow of a Hollywood giant. To which the towering actor replied: "To be in the shadow
of my wife would need a strange configuration of the sun."
Roquebrune Connery said she started painting well before she first met the actor in Morocco in 1970. The show inside
Italy's national monument, the Vittoriano, features prominently next to an exhibition of Magritte paintings, said
to be the most popular in Italy so far this year.
Roquebrune Connery uses vivid but also pastel colors in her paintings, many of them portraits, which often have
a joyful Mediterranean touch. "I don't like sad paintings," said the artist, herself impressed by what
she called "the staggering color of Rome", with its clear summer light, deep blue sky and "ambiance
of energy, strength and joy."
"I'm a Mediterranean and that's represented in my paintings," she said. Roquebrune Connery paintings
have been on show in Chicago, Athens and France and also made it to the National Museum of Women in the Arts in
Washington. The Rome show will run through June 10.