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1927-2015 | French
Painter of Poetic Reality, École de Paris
Guy Bardone was born in Saint-Claude in the Jura in 1927. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon and then at the École nationale supérieure des Arts décoratifs in Paris, where his teachers were Maurice Brianchon, Jules Cavaillès and François Desnoyer, the painters of ‘poetic reality’ who carried the colour of Bonnard and Matisse into the post-war years. In 1952 he won the Prix Fénéon, which opened the Paris galleries to him, and from the 1950s he worked and exhibited side by side with his lifelong friend René Genis.
Bardone painted landscapes, still lifes and figures in simplified planes of saturated colour: gardens and terraces, flowers on patterned cloths, the Jura, Brittany, Greece and Provence.
He was also a prolific lithographer. His work entered the Musée national d’Art moderne and the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, and the contents of the studio he shared with Genis were dispersed at Drouot in 2018, three years after his death at Oyonnax in 2015.
