Guy Bardone was born in Saint Claude, in eastern France. He is one of the important members of the French New Figurative Art. He studied under the master Maurice Bianchon, Jules Cavailles and François Desnoyer in the Ecole National Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, where he befriended Rene Genis. In 1953, Bardone was invited to participate in a group exhibitions at the Musee Galliera in Paris titled “Celebrities and Revelations of Contemporary Painting.” In 1954, he was exhibited in the Ecole de Paris Exhibition in Galerie Charpentier. Some of the awards he had won includes the prize of Felix Feneon in 1952 and the prize of the Greenshields Foundation in 1957. Bardone’s works are in the Collection of the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris, The National Library of France, Centre Georges Pompidou, Neuchâtel Art Museum in Switzerland, Yamagata Museum of Art in Japan and Chimei Museum in Tainan, Taiwan.