Pierre Bettencourt: Taking Flight: A Selection of Collages of Butterfly Wings
The Galerie Christophe Gaillard is pleased to announce a new presentation of the work of Pierre Bettencourt (1917鈥�2006), by arrangement with the artist鈥檚 estate, who have entrusted this representation to the gallery.A poet, storyteller, and fabulist, but also a printer and painter, from 1953 onwards, Pierre Bettencourt hunted butterflies in the company of his friend Jean Dubuffet and made his first collages out of butterfly wings. At that time, Dubuffet wrote to him regarding these butterfly works: 鈥淵ours are much better than mine, they present the specific possibilities of expression of butterfly wings much better than mine do; they obey much more concerted and confident reasoning and are in all respects much more impressive. What鈥檚 more, in this case, I emulated you鈥︹��
This was how PB described this lepidopteran, at once a fabulous material and an inexhaustible source of inspiration:*
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The Galerie Christophe Gaillard is pleased to announce a new presentation of the work of Pierre Bettencourt (1917鈥�2006), by arrangement with the artist鈥檚 estate, who have entrusted this representation to the gallery.A poet, storyteller, and fabulist, but also a printer and painter, from 1953 onwards, Pierre Bettencourt hunted butterflies in the company of his friend Jean Dubuffet and made his first collages out of butterfly wings. At that time, Dubuffet wrote to him regarding these butterfly works: 鈥淵ours are much better than mine, they present the specific possibilities of expression of butterfly wings much better than mine do; they obey much more concerted and confident reasoning and are in all respects much more impressive. What鈥檚 more, in this case, I emulated you鈥︹��
This was how PB described this lepidopteran, at once a fabulous material and an inexhaustible source of inspiration:*
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