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French Painting 20th century Paris Montmartre La Place du Tertre Oil on canvas signed (BESSE Raymond)
BESSE Raymond ( 1899 / 1969 )
Paris, Montmartre The Place du Tertre.
Oil on canvas signed lower left, countersigned and located "Place du Tertre, Montmartre" on the back.
Dimensions : 38 x 46 cm
Certificate of authenticity.
Raymond BESSE (26 December 1899 - 5 March 1969) was a French painter.
Raymond Besse arrived in Paris in 1916. He participated for the first time in the Salon des indépendants in 1923. He then participated in many other salons, including the Salon d'automne. He represented the northern suburbs of Paris, Saint-Ouen, Montmartre and Clichy many times because he liked to paint the area and his paintings are testimonies of life in the working-class neighborhoods during the first half of the century.
Raymond Besse has also produced many works on the themes of Normandy and the Loire Valley. It was in Loir-et-Cher that he spent his last years and died in 1969.
BESSE Raymond ( 1899 / 1969 )
Paris, Montmartre The Place du Tertre.
Oil on canvas signed lower left, countersigned and located "Place du Tertre, Montmartre" on the back.
Dimensions : 38 x 46 cm
Certificate of authenticity.
Raymond BESSE (26 December 1899 - 5 March 1969) was a French painter.
Raymond Besse arrived in Paris in 1916. He participated for the first time in the Salon des indépendants in 1923. He then participated in many other salons, including the Salon d'automne. He represented the northern suburbs of Paris, Saint-Ouen, Montmartre and Clichy many times because he liked to paint the area and his paintings are testimonies of life in the working-class neighborhoods during the first half of the century.
Raymond Besse has also produced many works on the themes of Normandy and the Loire Valley. It was in Loir-et-Cher that he spent his last years and died in 1969.
Data sheet
- Width
- 73 cm / 29 in
- Height
- 60 cm / 23.5 in
Specific References
Biography
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The ''little masters'' of painting
The term "little master of painting" found its consecration with the Dictionary of Little Masters of Painting 1820-1920 by Gérard Schurr and Pierre Cabanne. The expression applies, rightly and wrongly, to a plethora of artists active throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, for whom the history of art has not yet found a niche. But who are they? Do you know Edmond Coppenolle, Jules Coignet, Pierre Ballue, Charles Beauverie, Eugène Henri Cauchois, Léon François Comerre, Jules Hervé, Jean Charles Cazin, Léon Richet, Maurice Lévy, Albert Sorkau, Eugène Péchaubes? So many painters described as "little masters" but nevertheless exhibited in prestigious museums....In fact three great successive waves in the history of art have contributed to forgetting a large number of painters.The first of these waves, the Barbizon School, included Corot, Millet and Rousseau. It was followed by that of the stars of impressionism and by the great moderns like Picasso and Matisse.
Which obscures a lot of people.... Ultimately, shouldn't it be better to buy the painting for the painting and not for the name of the artist? Shouldn't it be better to buy a painting by a lesser-known painter than a failed painting by a well-known painter? As for the media, they only talk about a few names: Monet, Renoir, Chagall, Van Gogh or Toulouse-Lautrec and are partly responsible for the passing into oblivion of many of our French artists.
Claude FOSSOUX ( 1946 )The little rats in the foyer of The Opera house.Oil on canvas signed lower left.60 x 73 cmClaude Fossoux was born in 1946 in Paris. He decides to paint as a child in the school. Claude Fossoux regularly exhibited his works in Paris and also in New York and Chicago. He painted mostly young women in elegant poses in informal astounding, or in fields full of flowers.
Width 73 cm
Height 60 cm