Bernard Durin: BEETLES and Other INSECTS 

4th Revised & enlarged Edition

French painter and illustrator Bernard Durin (1940-1988) discovered the beauty of insects 

for himself and for his art during a walk in Provence in 1972. 

During the following decades he made around 60 portraits of insects, using rare and fascinating specimens 

entrusted to him by entomologists of the Museum of Natural History in Paris. 

Superior in detail to photography and highly esteemed by natural scientists and art lovers alike, 

dozens of these stunning portraits adorn this book.

 

Going far beyond the centuries-old tradition of documentary representations of animals, 

Durin succeeded in portraying each insect as an "individual personality." 

Gerhard Scherer wrote the introduction and the texts 

that accompany the large and impressive colored plates.

Hardcover: 138 pages

         Publisher: Schirmer Mosel

Dimensions: 11.3 x 0.8 x 13.1 inches