PROVENANCE:
Galerie Elegance, Taipei
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1991

Bernard Charoy was born on May 26th, 1931, in Nant-le- Grand, in the region of Lorraine in eastern France. He is best known for soft female portraits. His landscape paintings are exquisite and quite poetic. In 1955, Charoy started working in the workshops of Montmartre with local artists, and learned painting and lithography from artists, painters, and designers. Beginning in the 1960s, with commissions from the press and magazine publishers, he started contributing many mellifluous pieces especially to the media. Particularly graceful and romantic, and depicting beautiful and radiant scenery, his oil paintings attracted wide attention. From the 1970s to the present, Charoy has been invited to exhibit all over the world.