Miserabilist Painting By Robert Vernet Bonfort 1934-2017

Large oil on canvas measuring 130cm x 96cmSigned lower right Vernet BonfortTitle, dated 1966 and countersigned on the back Miserabilist period of the artist dear to Bernard Buffet, pictorial movement which went against the abstraction which reigned supreme after the war of 1945. We could find Reyberolle, Minaux, Lersy, Guerrier, Lorjou and some others. Artists who expressed themselves with few materials, colors, and in grayish tones or even yellowish... The artist never wanted to sell this painting, it remained in the artist's studio until his death, he had dedicated it to his wifeRobert VERNET-BONFORT born in 1934 in Marseille, he studied Art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Marseille from 1948 to 1957, he won numerous prizes there. Selected at the Salon des peintres Témoins de leur temps and at the Biennale Internationale de Menton, he won the Grand Prix of the Elisabeth T. Greenshield Foundation in Montreal. He has exhibited his works in France and abroad, particularly in England, Switzerland, Luxembourg, the United States and Canada. A brilliant colorist, his compositions are always very worked and remarkably accurate. A very precise drawing, his colors of an astonishing richness, both sumptuous and subtle, his warm and powerful manner, his solid and perfectly proportioned construction, his sense of volumes have seduced a good number of international collectors. Free shipping for the European Union 500 euros for international