Self-portrait, Oil On Wood, François Besson (1904-1987), Circa 1950

  
Signed, 41 x 33 cm. Born in 1904 in Lausanne, it was in 1925 that François besson, made of strasbourg his homeland d. In the inter-war, he knew his years of artistic formation in the wake of the school of decorative arts, especially with the painter Edward hirth. The Second World War would interrupt these fruitful years: mobilized, then taken prisoner of war in June 1940, he was interned in the "fronstalags" of Lorraine before escaping in January 1941, taking with him some one hundred and fifty drawings that bear witness to this captive life. Fugitive and exiled toulouse during the occupation, he continued his work and directed his painting inspired by Cézanne towards the cubist influence in contact with the Toulouse artists. In 1946, when he returned to Strasbourg, he worked in silence, for more than thirty years, on a marginal and singular work. It is only in the 1970s that he will be noticed in Strasbourg, at a time when, under the influence of significant travels to maroc or mexico, he realizes the synthesis of all his pictorial research in his latest works.

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1. type: oil
2. genre: expressionism
3. characteristics: on wood, signed
4. theme: portrait, self-portrait