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1922 Paris, France - 2016. Known for: Abstract, portrait, human figure painting.
Bernard Dufour (born 1922 in Paris) . He was notable for abstract painting after the Second World War, and later for portraits and human figures. Dufour originally studied agricultural engineering.... Read full biography
Bernard Dufour (born 1922 in Paris) . He was notable for abstract painting after the Second World War, and later for portraits and human figures. Dufour originally studied agricultural engineering. During the Occupation, he was pressed into war labor. He was sent to Germany with Alain Robbe-Grillet... Read full biography
Bernard Dufour (born 1922 in Paris) . He was notable for abstract painting after the Second World War, and later for portraits and human figures. Dufour originally studied agricultural engineering. During the Occupation, he was pressed into war labor. He was sent to Germany with Alain Robbe-Grillet and there they met Claude Ollier. In the winter of 1944-45 he went to the University of Heidelberg and studied Eugène Delacroix and Stéphane Mallarmé. After the war he copied works of Michelangelo... Read full biography
Bernard Dufour (born 1922 in Paris) . He was notable for abstract painting after the Second World War, and later for portraits and human figures. Dufour originally studied agricultural engineering. During the Occupation, he was pressed into war labor. He was sent to Germany with Alain Robbe-Grillet and there they met Claude Ollier. In the winter of 1944-45 he went to the University of Heidelberg and studied Eugène Delacroix and Stéphane Mallarmé. After the war he copied works of Michelangelo and Tintoretto in the Louvre. His first solo exhibition was at the Galerie Maeght in 1948, followed by exhibitions in the Jeanne Bucher gallery between 1951 and 1953. Motivated by these successes he soon signed an exclusive contract with the art dealer... Read full biography
Bernard Dufour (born 1922 in Paris) . He was notable for abstract painting after the Second World War, and later for portraits and human figures. Dufour originally studied agricultural engineering. During the Occupation, he was pressed into war labor. He was sent to Germany with Alain Robbe-Grillet and there they met Claude Ollier. In the winter of 1944-45 he went to the University of Heidelberg and studied Eugène Delacroix and Stéphane Mallarmé. After the war he copied works of Michelangelo and Tintoretto in the Louvre. His first solo exhibition was at the Galerie Maeght in 1948, followed by exhibitions in the Jeanne Bucher gallery between 1951 and 1953. Motivated by these successes he soon signed an exclusive contract with the art dealer Pierre Loeb. He collaborated with many writers, including René de Solier, André Pieyre de Mand... Read full biography
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Bernard Dufour (born 1922 in Paris)
He was notable for abstract painting after the Second World War, and later for portraits and human figures.
Dufour originally studied agricultural engineering. During the Occupation, he was pressed into war labor. He was sent to Germany with Alain Robbe-Grillet and there they met Claude Ollier. In the winter of 1944-45 he went to the University of Heidelberg and studied Eugène Delacroix and Stéphane Mallarmé. After the war he copied works of Michelangelo and Tintoretto in the Louvre.
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