Bernard Emile (1868 – 1941) – Female Nude – Charcoal And Chalk On Paper – Signed

Drawing of a full-length female nude, made with charcoal and white chalk on raw paper.
The paper is extremely thin, which caused some slight ripples.
The work is signed lower left, very legibly. It is in very good condition, without restoration and clean. It is presented in a modern setting decorated with Marie-Louise, under glass.

Emile Bernard is a prolific artist, who seems to have had a thousand lives, which led him to Brittany of course, where he co-founded the Pont Aven school with Gauguin, then to Egypt, throughout the Mediterranean countries. , in Turkey… Returning to France, he stayed in the south of France, in Germany and finally settled in Paris from 1904. Emile Bernard rubbed shoulders with many major painters of the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century: Gauguin, Van Gogh, Cézanne, to name just a few. These meetings and his numerous travels will nourish Bernard's painting.
The works of Emile Bernard are of course displayed in many museums. In Pont Aven and Brest of course, but also at the Musée d'Orsay, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, etc. .

Work visible at the gallery (07240). ​​​​​​​
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