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Deeply sincere, Catherine Bessin paints and draws on and with what comes her way: paper bags, washing station tokens, driftwood, used rice bags, newspapers, packaging, everything seems predestined to become the element of an artwork. “I am a path,” she said. “And an object that presents itself to me is like a sign that will reveal its true meaning. Objects call to me…


"Kneaded with syncretic symbolism with a very personal logic, his drawings and paintings oscillate between naive art and art brut, bathed in a cosmogony governed by great figures of the 20th century (Marylin Monroe, Federico Garcia Llorca), catastrophes of all kinds and various nightmarish facts (the Omar Raddad affair, the sinking of the Titanic, the massacre of October 17, 1961, the collective suicides of the Solar Temple) and form a whole revealing "the hidden meaning of events."
Trained at the Beaux-Arts in Quimper, this humanist who says "cannot stand injustice", believes in "the universality of art", and defines her work in a total way: "for me a true artist must be capable to create from everything he finds and makes his own… "Between two puffs, she admits to admiring pell-mell Rimbaud, Molière, Modigliani, Victor Hugo, Van Gogh and admits to pursuing a form of" quest for the truth, of absolute. "


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All artworks of Catherine Bessin
Fine Art Drawings, Cyrano de berje craque !, Catherine Bessin

Cyrano de berje craque !

Catherine Bessin

Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 32 x 0.2 cm

$339

Painting, Cubanisto, Catherine Bessin

Cubanisto

Catherine Bessin

Painting - 28 x 23 cm

$339

Fine Art Drawings, vive les femmes, Catherine Bessin

vive les femmes

Catherine Bessin

Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 26 x 0.1 cm

$339

Painting, Le regard de Camille, Catherine Bessin

Le regard de Camille

Catherine Bessin

Painting - 39 x 32 cm

$339

Painting, Le salut, Catherine Bessin

Le salut

Catherine Bessin

Painting - 38 x 32 x 0.1 cm

$339

Painting, La danseuse andalouse, Catherine Bessin

La danseuse andalouse

Catherine Bessin

Painting - 28 x 34 x 0.1 cm

$339

Fine Art Drawings, Tu me fais craquer, Catherine Bessin

Tu me fais craquer

Catherine Bessin

Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 26 x 0.1 cm

$339

Painting, Téojasmin, Catherine Bessin

Téojasmin

Catherine Bessin

Painting - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm

$339

Painting, L'anguille et l'araignée de la baie, Catherine Bessin

L'anguille et l'araignée de la baie

Catherine Bessin

Painting - 21 x 34 x 0.1 cm

$339

Painting, Le retour de la jument verte, Catherine Bessin

Le retour de la jument verte

Catherine Bessin

Painting - 22 x 34 x 0.1 cm

$339

Painting, Le serpent de mer, Catherine Bessin

Le serpent de mer

Catherine Bessin

Painting - 21 x 34 x 0.1 cm

$339

Painting, La jument verte, Catherine Bessin

La jument verte

Catherine Bessin

Painting - 34 x 21 x 0.1 cm

$339

Painting, Bouddha jaune /Le flamand rose (recto/verso), Catherine Bessin

Bouddha jaune /Le flamand rose (recto/verso)

Catherine Bessin

Painting - 29 x 20 cm

$339

Painting, Et que la lumière soit, Catherine Bessin

Et que la lumière soit

Catherine Bessin

Painting - 42 x 30 cm

$339

Painting, Les nattes de srein, Catherine Bessin

Les nattes de srein

Catherine Bessin

Painting - 28 x 20 x 0.1 cm

$339

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Who is the artist?

Deeply sincere, Catherine Bessin paints and draws on and with what comes her way: paper bags, washing station tokens, driftwood, used rice bags, newspapers, packaging, everything seems predestined to become the element of an artwork. “I am a path,” she said. “And an object that presents itself to me is like a sign that will reveal its true meaning. Objects call to me…


"Kneaded with syncretic symbolism with a very personal logic, his drawings and paintings oscillate between naive art and art brut, bathed in a cosmogony governed by great figures of the 20th century (Marylin Monroe, Federico Garcia Llorca), catastrophes of all kinds and various nightmarish facts (the Omar Raddad affair, the sinking of the Titanic, the massacre of October 17, 1961, the collective suicides of the Solar Temple) and form a whole revealing "the hidden meaning of events."
Trained at the Beaux-Arts in Quimper, this humanist who says "cannot stand injustice", believes in "the universality of art", and defines her work in a total way: "for me a true artist must be capable to create from everything he finds and makes his own… "Between two puffs, she admits to admiring pell-mell Rimbaud, Molière, Modigliani, Victor Hugo, Van Gogh and admits to pursuing a form of" quest for the truth, of absolute. "

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When was Catherine Bessin born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1968