Renée BERNARD (Oytier Saint Oblas 1906 - Paris... Lot n° 216

Market in Bamako Original oil on canvas 73 x 92 Handwritten on the stretcher: Bernard Renée Marché Attached to figurative art, Renée Bernard drew her inspiration from Fauvist painting, translating her emotions into mosaics of polychrome mass, where pure colors play with the luminosity of whites. From 1933 to 1936, she attended the École normale de Grenoble, then continued her studies at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, with Lucien Simon. She exhibited at several salons in Paris and elsewhere, including the Société des Beaux-Arts de la France d'Outre-Mer. Thanks to the grants she received, she travelled to French West Africa, Morocco and the West Indies. Her trip to French West Africa, won in 1940 and postponed to 1947 due to the Second World War, took her to Senegal, Sudan, Côte d'Ivoire, Upper Volta, Mauritania and Guinea over a period of eight months. Some of his works are held by the museums of Dieppe, Vienne (Isère) and Grenoble. Bibliography : Renée Bernard SNIDI 1981 "Provence, Dauphiné, Bretagne" Collection Terres des Peintres 1999.