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Benedicte Gele

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Benedicte Gele

Concept

Horses are the pretext, paint is the means of expression to express her emotions.

Benedicte Gelé started to paint horse with a figurative expression as it was very natural for her. Except that she’s refused to keep that way of style. Inside her, there were much more than just the representation o...
Horses are the pretext, paint is the means of expression to express her emotions.

Benedicte Gelé started to paint horse with a figurative expression as it was very natural for her. Except that she’s refused to keep that way of style. Inside her, there were much more than just the representation of the animal, something more personal that Gelé hadn’t find out yet.

The horse is taken as a body with round shapes, bones, angles that reminds her nude lessons at school. She’s chosen the horse but it could have been a female model as they share common points.

Year after year, the line took the central part of her art like a common thread with the powerful black chalk she always kept. The graphic designer in her are never very far away and kept influencing her work.

She also an explorer when it comes to technique and Gelé always try new mediums to keep a kind of freshness, have infinite possibilities and choice of expression in her work. Her art is rich in texture, contrast and use complementary color palettes blended together.

Year after year, her horses became more abstract as well with the essential to express the movement and the expressivity. A kind of semi abstract painting where the animal remains in the lines and the emotional in the core of her art.

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Find 74 original artworks & painters by Benedicte Gele. Check out Benedicte Gele's profile, artwork prices, exhibition information, and buy art online.

Series

“Face to Face”

These face-to-faces with the horse absorb and send us back to our own emotions. He stares at us but never judges us. These expressive eyes mirror your feelings when your eyes come into contact. He is you as much as you are him.

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On The Surface 1t

USD 777.60 Year.2022 w42.00 x h56.00 x d0.10 cm

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Horse Memory 3t

USD 1,296.00 Year.2022 w60.00 x h60.00 x d2.00 cm

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Face to Face 9p

Sold Out Year.2022 w50.00 x h65.00 x d2.00 cm

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Connexion

Sold Out Year.2020 w60.00 x h73.00 x d2.00 cm

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Face to Face 48t

Sold Out Year.2022 w70.00 x h100.00 x d2.00 cm

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Alert 10t

USD 3,456.00 Year.2016 w78.00 x h108.00 x d0.10 cm

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Face to Face 4a

USD 680.40 Year.2019 w42.00 x h59.40 x d0.10 cm

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Face to Face 6a

USD 680.40 Year.2020 w42.00 x h59.40 x d0.10 cm

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Face to Face 7a

USD 680.40 Year.2020 w42.00 x h59.40 x d0.10 cm

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Face to Face 7p

USD 777.60 Year.2020 w42.00 x h56.00 x d0.10 cm

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Face to Face 1t

Sold Out Year.2016 w78.00 x h108.00 x d0.10 cm

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Face to face 4p

USD 1,728.00 Year.2019 w84.00 x h59.40 x d0.10 cm

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Face to Face 45t

Sold Out Year.2021 w50.00 x h65.00 x d2.00 cm

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Face to Face 42t

Sold Out Year.2021 w60.00 x h73.00 x d2.00 cm

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The Shadow Part

Sold Out Year.2019 w60.00 x h80.00 x d2.00 cm

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Face to face 3a

USD 410.40 Year.2019 w30.00 x h40.00 x d0.10 cm

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“Horse Memories”

Through a modern and graphic writing mixing abstraction and expression, these imprints of memory worked in mixed technique, shape an intimate portrait of a horse which represents the collective memory of horses. Those present, past and those to come.

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Horse Memory 6t

USD 604.80 Year.2022 w40.00 x h40.00 x d2.00 cm

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Horse Memory 4t

Sold Out Year.2022 w50.00 x h50.00 x d2.00 cm

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Horse Memory 2t

USD 1,296.00 Year.2022 w60.00 x h60.00 x d2.00 cm

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Horse Memory 3t

USD 1,296.00 Year.2022 w60.00 x h60.00 x d2.00 cm

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Horse Memory 5t

USD 3,024.00 Year.2022 w100.00 x h73.00 x d2.00 cm

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Horse Memory 7t

Sold Out Year.2022 w50.00 x h50.00 x d2.00 cm

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“Expression”

The horse has a range of very subtle expressions. The head is the central point. According to its position, its orientation and with the eyes and the nostrils, this is the basis for interpreting an emotion, which is often yours.

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On The Surface 1t

USD 777.60 Year.2022 w42.00 x h56.00 x d0.10 cm

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Look XXIII

Sold Out Year.2022 w80.00 x h40.00 x d2.00 cm

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Expression 21t

Sold Out Year.2022 w50.00 x h65.00 x d2.00 cm

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Expression 22t

Sold Out Year.2022 w50.00 x h61.00 x d2.00 cm

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Speak To Me

USD 1,155.60 Year.2020 w60.00 x h60.00 x d2.00 cm

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Look XXI

USD 766.80 Year.2018 w42.00 x h56.00 x d0.10 cm

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Expression 15t

Sold Out Year.2021 w89.00 x h130.00 x d0.10 cm

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Look XXII

USD 950.40 Year.2014 w50.00 x h50.00 x d2.00 cm

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“Equine Nude”

These naked bodies remind me of the human and particularly female nudes drawn at school. They are all bodies with fleshy or angular shapes, with dynamic or wiser attitudes. The horse has this animal side in addition, rawer, more authentic.

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Equine Nude 15a

USD 529.20 Year.2017 w48.00 x h36.00 x d0.10 cm

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Equine Nude 134t

USD 1,512.00 Year.2022 w73.00 x h54.00 x d2.00 cm

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Equine Nude 132t

Sold Out Year.2022 w40.00 x h40.00 x d1.50 cm

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Renewal Series N°2

Sold Out Year.2019 w21.00 x h29.70 x d0.10 cm

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Renewal Series N°1

Sold Out Year.2019 w21.00 x h29.70 x d0.10 cm

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Renewal Series N°6

Sold Out Year.2019 w21.00 x h29.70 x d0.10 cm

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Renewal Series N°3

Sold Out Year.2019 w21.00 x h29.70 x d0.10 cm

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Renewal Series N°7

Sold Out Year.2019 w21.00 x h29.70 x d0.10 cm

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Renewal Series N°5

Sold Out Year.2019 w21.00 x h29.70 x d0.10 cm

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Equine Nude 133t

Sold Out Year.2022 w42.00 x h56.00 x d0.10 cm

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Equine Nude 13a

Sold Out Year.2017 w38.00 x h55.00 x d2.00 cm

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Equine Nude 11p

USD 1,728.00 Year.2019 w81.50 x h59.40 x d0.10 cm

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Equine Nude 91t

Sold Out Year.2018 w56.00 x h42.00 x d0.10 cm

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Equine Nude 119t

USD 615.60 Year.2021 w36.00 x h48.00 x d0.10 cm

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Equine Nude 120t

Sold Out Year.2021 w36.00 x h48.00 x d0.10 cm

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Equine Nude 126t

Sold Out Year.2021 w42.00 x h59.00 x d0.10 cm

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Equine Nude 125t

USD 6,156.00 Year.2021 w97.00 x h146.00 x d0.10 cm

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Equine Nude 123t

USD 2,322.00 Year.2021 w92.00 x h65.00 x d2.00 cm

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Equine Nude 72t

Sold Out Year.2016 w36.00 x h48.00 x d0.10 cm

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Equine Nude 5p

USD 810.00 Year.2017 w50.00 x h50.00 x d1.50 cm

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Equine Nude 111t

Sold Out Year.2019 w50.00 x h65.00 x d2.00 cm

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Equine Nude 13p

USD 1,998.00 Year.2020 w81.00 x h60.00 x d2.00 cm

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Equine Nude 116t

USD 756.00 Year.2022 w42.00 x h56.00 x d0.10 cm

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Series

“Equine Life”

Every day in the skin of a horse. The horses' attitudes have a lot to teach us. It is always a joy to observe them in their environment, how they evolve together in motion or stand quietly, roll or graze. A rich vocabulary of silent language.

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Soldiers, At Ease!

Sold Out Year.2006 w100.00 x h81.00 x d2.00 cm

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Race 3

USD 1,728.00 Year.2015 w81.00 x h60.00 x d2.00 cm

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Pegase in NY

USD 1,144.80 Year.2016 w60.00 x h60.00 x d2.00 cm

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The Carousel

USD 2,592.00 Year.2018 w80.00 x h80.00 x d2.00 cm

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Equine Life 4

Sold Out Year.2016 w80.00 x h160.00 x d0.10 cm

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Hierarchy 18p

USD 1,620.00 Year.2019 w84.00 x h59.40 x d0.10 cm

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Hierarchy 17p

USD 1,620.00 Year.2019 w84.00 x h59.40 x d0.10 cm

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Hierarchy 16p

USD 1,620.00 Year.2019 w84.00 x h59.40 x d0.10 cm

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Equine Life 2a

USD 2,084.40 Year.2019 w120.00 x h40.00 x d2.00 cm

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“GEO-GRAPHIC”

"Running on the ground substrate, feeling the irregularity of the terrain under my shoes, every hard pebble, sweet clump of grasses, smelling the scent of the fresh wet earth, the colors of the landscape swing in front of my eyes. I run. I’m alive."

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Imprint

USD 777.60 Year.2022 w42.00 x h56.00 x d0.10 cm

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Territory

USD 2,214.00 Year.2021 w70.00 x h70.00 x d2.00 cm

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Trace

USD 756.00 Year.2019 w42.00 x h56.00 x d0.10 cm

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Geo-Graphic

USD 756.00 Year.2021 w50.00 x h50.00 x d2.00 cm

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18k

Sold Out Year.2019 w30.00 x h30.00 x d2.00 cm

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22k

Sold Out Year.2019 w30.00 x h30.00 x d2.00 cm

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Landscape

USD 756.00 Year.2019 w50.00 x h50.00 x d1.50 cm

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Path

USD 399.60 Year.2019 w30.00 x h30.00 x d0.10 cm

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Series

“This is not a horse”

Looking elsewhere. Broadening my horizon. Discovering other lines. Nourishing my art. To better get back to the horses afterward.

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Orphan Girl from Delacroix

USD 615.60 Year.2019 w40.00 x h40.00 x d1.50 cm

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Rose

USD 756.00 Year.2019 w42.00 x h59.40 x d0.10 cm

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Channel

USD 756.00 Year.2019 w42.00 x h59.40 x d0.10 cm

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Les Saumonards

USD 756.00 Year.2019 w59.40 x h42.00 x d0.10 cm

“Benedicte Gele's Artworks”

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Face to Face 53t

USD 2,376.00 Year.2023 w73.00 x h92.00 x d2.00 cm

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Face to Face 52T

Sold Out Year.2022 w80.00 x h80.00 x d2.00 cm

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Price Range

USD $313 ~ $6,156

Biography

France based and internationally spreaded, Benedicte Gelé paint the horses, expressiveness and emotions. Born in 1975 in the Parisian suburb, however she’s never had connexion with this animal until she started to ride them at the age of 15.

She became graphic designer without stopping her resear...
France based and internationally spreaded, Benedicte Gelé paint the horses, expressiveness and emotions. Born in 1975 in the Parisian suburb, however she’s never had connexion with this animal until she started to ride them at the age of 15.

She became graphic designer without stopping her research in the artistic way. Her curiosity and her desire to improve her skill, pushed her into learning by herself the different techniques like oil or watercolor. She started to paint landscapes with first success in regional exhibitions with some first prizes.

In 2004, her job as art director ended brutally as she was pregnant. This unemployment time was undeniably a sign for her to start something else. Gelé became graphic designer and artist freelancer.

"One part of me has always been attracted to horses without knowing why exactly. With the experience now, I could say that maybe because this animal can express itself only with the expressivity of his body and the subtile langage of his head, it made me sensitive to his emotions. All this process was unconscious. Now I can add that I realised that all these expressions I put in my horses was also my own inner emotions. These that I was not aware of, that I hid deep inside me."

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