PROVENANCE:
Galerie Elegance, Taipei
Private collection, Taiwan

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 Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, where he befriended René Genis. In 1953, Bardone was invited to participate in a group exhibitions at the Musée 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 award he had won includes the price of Félix Fénéon in 1952 and the price of the Greenshields Foundation in 1957. Bardone’s work was collected by National Museum of Modern Art in Paris, National Library of France, Centre Georges Pompidou, Neuchâtel Art Museum in Switzerland, Yamagata Museum of Art in Japan, and Chimei Museum in Taiwan.