Jacqueline Benoit (1925-2012) Naive Art Little Girl And Nuns In The Convent Oil Painting Signed

Superb oil on embedded canvas 41 cm x 33 cm, sold with its wooden frame 57 cm x 49 cm, signed lower right J. Benoit, dated 1983 and representing nuns in a convent, one of whom holds a little girl by the hand.
Painting in perfect condition Sold with a certificate invoice.
Jacqueline Benoit, born January 16, 1925 in Paris and died January 28, 2012 in Orléans, is a French painter. She painted numerous gouaches from childhood and then in 1954, she began using oils. She lives and works in Orléans and is a member of the Salon d'Automne and the Salon Comparisons from 1964. Her work is the subject of numerous exhibitions of naive painting. She exhibits in France, Italy, Switzerland and the United States. Jacqueline Benoit died on January 28, 2012. The Museum of Naive Art and Singular Arts in Laval keeps a collection of works by the artist.
These works, which are in the right line of those of Douanier Rousseau, also recall the work of Séraphine de Senlis and Balthus, to whom she pays tribute in one of her paintings, by reproducing the composition of her Three sisters , analyses the auctioneer. Exhibited during her lifetime in international museums dedicated to naïf art, Jacqueline Benoît was a recognized artist and acclaimed by actors and amateurs of this current. After meeting in 1964 Lo Duca, a writer close to Georges Bataille – who does not hesitate to declare that she appears as “one of the most important Naïfs since Rousseau”, the painter then meets Anatole Jakovsky, art critic influential in this movement who will not cease to enliven it.