Bernard Charoy -Portrait of a Young Girl at a Beach in South of France -Oil Painting

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Bernard Charoy -Portrait of a Sweet Young Girl in a South of France Beach-Oil painting

French post impressionist Oil painting … Read more Bernard Charoy -Portrait of a Sweet Young Girl in a South of France Beach-Oil painting

French post impressionist Oil painting on canvas -signed

canvas size 20x24" - Frame size 22x26"

Artist Biography
Bernard Charoy is a brilliant talented figurative artist, who has continued to follow and develop his creativity instincts for nearly half a century.
Charoy is, in large part, a painter of the "eternal feminine" through Charoy is known and, no doubt, will always be remembered first and foremost as a painter of women, there is something more singular, more specific to his oeuvre.Whether it be the mood and mystery of some secluded landscape, the delight and freshness of an adolescent girl discovering and exhorting in her own femininity, or the cool and tantalising gaze of a beautiful woman in full command of her seductive powers, Charoy's paintings always communicate a feeling.Born 1931 in the Lorraine district of France to a family of artisans. He showed an early gift for draughtsmanship and creative talent, developing throughout his teenage years.In 1955, he attended, Atelier Dejoie in Butte Montmartre, initially studying lithography and later oil painting. Between 1960 and 1974, Charoy’s work had been noted and was in great demand by French and international newspapers and magazines. Portraits of de Gaulle, Churchill and Mao, featured among his work of this time. He was commissioned to provide the illustrations for the French translation of Alexander Solzhenitsen’s ‘Gulag Archipelago’.Throughout, Charoy, preferred the freedom that oil painting gave him. Returning to his native Lorraine to paint. Whilst an accomplished landscape painter, it is really his understanding and execution of the human figure and in particular the ‘eternal female’ that he will be best remembered and for which his work is prized.

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