About

Swiss-born art lover Pierre Bessard has founded Bessard Art Advisory to share on a professional level quality-conscious discoveries with enlightened amateurs and collectors who seek to expand their horizons with inspiring and exciting works. What drives him is curiosity for the significant, the beautiful, and often the provocative. During his liberal arts studies in the mid-1990s in New York City, Pierre already developed a keen eye for the boldest and most engaging propositions in contemporary art – in the fields of photography, painting, sculpture, video, or drawing.

While subsequently expanding his knowledge and perception of art history, Pierre formalized through best practices in art advisory the information and intuitions gained internationally at artist studios, galleries, museums, libraries, and art fairs, as well as with continuing professional education at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London. Today he keeps abreast with the latest creative endeavors and trends, enthused by the sensitive and outstanding talents he encounters.

In Pierre’s view, art is the essential aesthetic expression and connection in life. It reveals the depths and breadths of the human condition with a surprising sense of universality. As such, art contributes to the humane values of tolerance and mutual respect and understanding. By appealing to our emotions and intellect, art decodes the human experience, and stirs progress.