Mémoire des eaux, 2025
Caroline de Boissieu

Painting : acrylic, ink

52 x 22 cm 20.5 x 8.7 inch

€400 400 €
Secure delivery : France   + €32
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About the artwork

Type

Unique artwork

Signature

Hand-signed by artist

Authenticity

Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the artist

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Dimensions cm • inch

52 x 22 cm 20.5 x 8.7 inch Height x Width x Depth

Framing

Not framed


Tags

Abstract

Semi-abstract

Nature

Black

Green

Artwork sold in perfect condition

Artwork location: France

Within the dark confines of its frame, the work opens like a stained-glass window: the outside light filters through and animates it, making the watery grays, deep greens, and milky whites vibrate. Everything here is a palimpsest—this patient stratification, this sedimentation where ink and acrylic overlap until the lines become blurred and the contours indistinct.

One might think one recognizes the power of the elements: waves, branches, aquatic depths where the gaze wanders as in a great landscape painting. But nothing is named. Matter remains suggestion, a vestige of an immeasurable presence, an imprint of memory shimmering in the light.

A work that is both transparent and opaque, mobile and immobile, slowly revealing itself with the force of radical poetry. It invites the viewer to project themselves into the motif, at the borders of the conscious and the unconscious, as if in a waking dream.

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Artwork painted in ink on tracing paper
The best way to frame a piece is to place it between two panes of glass.
The artwork will be delivered placed between two foam boards.

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About the seller

Independent artist • France

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Caroline de Boissieu, Mémoire des eaux
France ʉۢ 1958

Presentation

A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Caroline de Boissieu has devoted herself fully to her art since 2000, following an earlier career as a stylist. Her work begins, often, with a photograph — and from that matrix emerges something far more elusive: translucent materials such as ink, acrylic, tracing layers, plexiglas, and glass dissolve the contours until what remains is suggested, fleeting, yet haunting.

Hers is a practice of the palimpsest, a patient layering in which every technique is summoned to give the work the fullness of its breath. Light lives at its very heart. Through subtle play of shadow and reflection, each piece seems to breathe, to shift with the angle and intensity of one's gaze — never quite the same twice. Drawing on water, air, and distant shorelines without ever naming them, she opens a dreamlike space, at once transparent and opaque, still and in motion, where the viewer is gently invited to project their own memory, their own emotion.

It is a poetry that reveals itself slowly. Naturally drawn toward ever more limpid supports, she also gives her paintings an architectural presence, collaborating with architects, glassmakers, and designers in France and abroad — each work composed to live alongside those who dwell with it.

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