Paléogramme N°5, 2026
Painting : oil · 30 x 30 x 2 cm 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch · Ready to hang
$1,186
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Painting : Unique artwork
Condition
Artwork sold in perfect condition, not framed, ready to hang
with stretcher frame
Authenticity
Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the gallery
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Signature
Hand-signed by artist
Dimensions ( cm • inch )
30 x 30 x 2 cm 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Description
This abstract composition explores the dialogue between matter and light.
The gaze is guided by a sharp horizontal division.
The upper part is clad in a solar yellow, almost tactile.
A dark, irregular line marks a clear break.
Below, nuances of red and beige intertwine subtly.
The oil technique creates a marked relief.
The work of matter evokes geological strata or fragments of memory.
The artist here transposes a visual sensation into a sensory experience.
The chromatic rhythm suggests an imaginary landscape, between earth and sky.
The whole exudes a serene and balanced presence.
This signed and dated painting from 2026 is distinguished by its dense texture.
Presentation
Through his work, Jean Claude Bertrand offers a visual exploration of the senses, memory, and our relationship with living things. His painting awakens an awareness of the world through light, matter, rhythms, sounds, smells, and even flavors.
The painter questions notions of temporality, perception, and transmission. Each work thus constitutes a space for projection, resonance, and presence.
Jean Claude Bertrand bases his practice on an experimental and multisensory approach. He works on canvas, wood, Altuglas, or stoneware, using mixed techniques that combine pigments, natural materials, transparencies, and textures.
Painting becomes both an intuitive and performative act: some series are born while listening to live music, others in dialogue with a perfume, a wine, a sensation.
He has also collaborated with a master glassmaker in an exploration of stained glass, thus extending his research into the relationship between light and matter.
The uniqueness of Jean Claude Bertrand's work lies in his ability to translate the vibration of reality. His painting does not represent, it restores: it captures an invisible resonance between things, a tension between elements.
Through a living, open, and sensory abstraction, he composes his works as spaces for perceptual experimentation, where matter becomes language and color becomes memory.
His work lies at the crossroads of the arts, the senses, and memories, like a sensitive and universal language that connects perception, matter, and humanity.
Jean Claude Bertrand grew up with the deep conviction that he would become a painter. From a very young age, he showed a profound artistic sensibility that led him to enroll at the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Nancy, from which he graduated in 1970. His academic training gave him a rigorous mastery of drawing, composition, and art history, , while fostering the artistic freedom that he would refine over the decades.
For more than twenty years, he pursued a career in advertising and communications, where he held creative and strategic positions. This experience gave him a keen understanding of visual language, images, and audiences.
His exposure to music, jazz in particular, enriched his artistic approach with a sensory and synesthetic dimension. He discovered that each sound vibration could be transposed into movement, light, or matter. This deep connection between the senses became the foundation of his artistic research.
In 1997, a major personal event led him to make a decisive change: he left the world of communications to devote himself entirely to painting. In 1998, he became a full-time painter. This commitment became a way of life, an inner necessity.
He set up his studio in Astaffort, in southwestern France, and for more than twenty-five years has been developing a demanding and sensitive body of work, praised for its uniqueness and sensory depth. His work, exhibited in France and internationally, explores memories, rhythms, light, and the musicality of color through collections such as Nature, Music, Perfume, Wine, Writing, and From Oil to Gold.
Jean-Claude Bertrand bases all his artistic research on sensory memories, the musicality of color, and the cycles of life. Through matter, light, and time, he explores visual rhythms and the structuring of the senses in pictorial space.
His works are part of private collections in France, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, the United States, and Morocco.
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