Michel BESNARD (1942-2020) - Lot 729

Michel BESNARD (1942-2020) Series of eight digital prints on paper signed lower right and numbered each 1/8 lower left. They illustrate songs by Boris Vian: Terre - Lune / Cinématographe / T'es à peindre / Les joyeux bouchers / Je bois / Le déserteur / Le petit commerce / La java des bombes atomiques Framed under glass, one broken Expert : Expertises Tellier, Paris / Marc-Henri TELLIER, CEFA member "Michel BESNARD, a former graphic art teacher at the Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts in Rouen, possesses a rare range of creative talents, from typography of original printing typefaces to polychrome wood engraving, painting, printmaking and sculpture. This is an artist equally fascinated by the history of writing, and with exceptional brio in his work as a wood engraver, where he transmits his graphic and chromatic universe with fervor and ease, through his effective choice of successive colors, with precise and infinite nuances thanks to high-quality printing inks. Starting with sinuous, mysterious drawings, Michel BESNARD brings to life a fantastic, narrative universe rooted in the most evocative aspects of art, not forgetting his statues in rigidified paper, full of flavor, whose bronze finish is nothing short of astonishing. André RUELLAN, art critic On October 25, 2021, Michel Besnard (posthumously) and his wife Roselyne received the insignia of Chevaliers des Arts et des Lettres from Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, Mayor of Rouen.