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"Deux Nues Féminin" by Bernard Dufour, Oil on Canvas, 1964

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"Deux nues féminin" by Bernard Dufour, oil on canvas, 1964 Bernard Dufour was a French painter, photographer, and writer, born on 21 November 1922 in Paris and died on 21 July 2016 in Aveyron. He is known as "the painter of women" and for his very "sexualised" representations of women. His hand drawing was immortalized in the film "La Belle Noiseuse" by Jacques Rivette An agricultural engineer by training, Bernard Dufour came to painting after the Second World War. At first he produced abstract works before turning to figurative art in the 1960s. He then painted numerous self-portraits and portraits of close friends and family, as well as nudes. A painter of the intimate, close to Jean Genet, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Claude Ollier and Pierre Guyotat, his paintings can be seen in the film La Belle Noiseuse by Jacques Rivette. He also testified in the documentary film "Mise à nu" by Corinne Espagno. He was presented at the Venice Biennale in 1964 Bernard Dufour died in july 2016 at his home in Mas de Pradié, Foissac (Aveyron and Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées region, France), where he had retired in the mid-1970s.
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    Height: 28.75 in (73 cm)Width: 23.63 in (60 cm)Depth: 0.79 in (2 cm)
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    1964
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    PARIS, FR
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    1stDibs: LU7846231878902

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