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1902 - 1949. Known for: Portrait, figure, design, illustrations.
A painter of portraits, figures including nudes and genre scenes, Christian Berard worked primarily in Paris including as a fashion illustrator for Chanel and Nina Ricci and a theater-set designer.... Read full biography
A painter of portraits, figures including nudes and genre scenes, Christian Berard worked primarily in Paris including as a fashion illustrator for Chanel and Nina Ricci and a theater-set designer. He also worked in New York City as a set designer, fashion illustrator and ballet costume designer... Read full biography
A painter of portraits, figures including nudes and genre scenes, Christian Berard worked primarily in Paris including as a fashion illustrator for Chanel and Nina Ricci and a theater-set designer. He also worked in New York City as a set designer, fashion illustrator and ballet costume designer for Balanchine. To his friends, he had the nickname of Bebe. In Paris, Berard was a student at the Academie Ranson where he studied with Maurice Denis and Edouard Vuillard. In 1924, he had his first... Read full biography
A painter of portraits, figures including nudes and genre scenes, Christian Berard worked primarily in Paris including as a fashion illustrator for Chanel and Nina Ricci and a theater-set designer. He also worked in New York City as a set designer, fashion illustrator and ballet costume designer for Balanchine. To his friends, he had the nickname of Bebe. In Paris, Berard was a student at the Academie Ranson where he studied with Maurice Denis and Edouard Vuillard. In 1924, he had his first exhibition of paintings at Galerlie Druet with a group of other paintings labeled Neo-Romantic that included Eugene Berman and Pavel Tchelitchew. His paintings often have subdued coloration with blacks, browns and whites and his theater designs are... Read full biography
A painter of portraits, figures including nudes and genre scenes, Christian Berard worked primarily in Paris including as a fashion illustrator for Chanel and Nina Ricci and a theater-set designer. He also worked in New York City as a set designer, fashion illustrator and ballet costume designer for Balanchine. To his friends, he had the nickname of Bebe. In Paris, Berard was a student at the Academie Ranson where he studied with Maurice Denis and Edouard Vuillard. In 1924, he had his first exhibition of paintings at Galerlie Druet with a group of other paintings labeled Neo-Romantic that included Eugene Berman and Pavel Tchelitchew. His paintings often have subdued coloration with blacks, browns and whites and his theater designs are known for their monochromatic architecture, which form a backdrop to bright-toned costumes. "Berard's portraits from the 1920s-30s were often... Read full biography
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Keywords (27)
Art Method
- •Art Design
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Theatre Scene Painting, Stage/Set Design for Television and/or Movies
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstraction and Realism; Semi Abstract
- •Neo Romantic
- •Surrealism, Surrealist
Art Subject
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Female Face and Figure
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Interior Scenes
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Europe
Art School
- •Academie Ranson, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
Added Description
- •Abstraction Specialty
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago