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Emile Bernard (1868-1941) 
Aliases: Emile Henri Bernard; Jean Dorsal; Henri Lebreton; Lepeseur; Monguerre; Ludovic Nemo; Viollette Sainte-Forêt; Viollette "de" Sainte-Forêt; un témoin; Ed Wezzan
Professions: Painter
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EMILE BERNARD (1868-1941)
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BERNARD, EMILE
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Émile Bernard , 1868-1941 LE REPOS à PONT-AVEN (LA GARDEUSE D' OISE) Oil on canvas laid down on board
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EMILE BERNARD (1868-1941)
Biography: Bernard
(b Lille, 28 April 1868; d Paris, 15 April 1941). French painter and writer. He was the son of a cloth merchant. Relations with his parents were never harmonious, and in 1884, against his father’s wishes, he enrolled as a student at the Atelier Cormon in Paris. There he became a close friend of Louis Anquetin and Toulouse-Lautrec. In suburban views of Asnières, where his parents lived, Bernard experimented with Impressionist and then Pointillist colour theory, in direct opposition to his master’s academic teaching; an argument with Fernand Cormon led to his expulsion from the studio in 1886. He made a walking tour of Normandy and Brittany that year, drawn to Gothic architecture and the simplicity of the carved Breton calvaries. In Concarneau he struck up a friendship with Claude-Emile Schuffenecker and met Gauguin briefly in Pont-Aven. During the winter Bernard met van Gogh and frequented the shop of the colour merchant Julien-François Tanguy, where he gained access to the little-known work of Cézanne.
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