The Life and Identity of Tobeen The name Tobeen is a pseudonym, a chosen identity that masked the life of the French artist Félix Bonnet. Born in Bordeaux, France, on July 20, 1880, he was a man deeply rooted in his origins, having been born and bred in the same city. While his frequent references to Basque subjects often led observers to label him a Basque artist, he remained a man of French lineage, maintaining a distinct separation between his personal heritage and the regional themes that defined much of his visual output. His life was marked by a movement between the urban intensity of…