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Forrest Bess was an American Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1911. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Blaffer Art Museum in Houston. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Anton Kern Gallery have featured Forrest Bess's work in the past.Forrest Bess's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 150 USD to 112,900 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1999 the record price for this artist at auction is 112,900 USD for Untitled No. 6, sold at Sotheby's New York in 2011. Forrest Bess has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for ArtDaily in July 2025. The artist died in 1977.
In reference to the exhibition FORREST BESS, presented by the Fridericianum in Kassel in 2020, a comprehensive monograph on the artist's life and work has now been published under the same title.
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley
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..Beginning in early childhood, Bess experienced intense hallucinations that both frightened and intrigued him; in 1946, he began to incorporate images from these visions into his paintings...
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..Bess drew meaning for these symbols from various disciplines such as medicine, psychology, anthropology, and philosophy, eventually formulating a theory, which he referred to as his 鈥渢hesis,鈥 that the...
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