Bernard Taurelle 1, Large Fauvist French Post Impressionist Oil Painting Bernard Taurelle

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Bernard Taurelle (French, born 1931), Les Bouleaux, oil on canvas landscape painting depicting birch trees framing a lush riverside scene. … Read more Bernard Taurelle (French, born 1931), Les Bouleaux, oil on canvas landscape painting depicting birch trees framing a lush riverside scene. Rendered in an Impressionistic style with soft layered brushwork and a Fauve pastel toned palette of greens, blues, and lavenders, the composition conveys a tranquil atmosphere with a small structure and waterway visible in the background.
Hand signed lower left and hand inscribed with the artists name, title, and dated 1990 on the verso.
Dimensions: 44 X 37. Work Size: 36 x 28.75 in.



Bernard Taurelle (French, B. 1931) is a French Postwar & Contemporary painter artist, widely known for his post impressionist paintings. Known for his Fauvist nude figures and lush landscapes. He graduated college at 19 with a degree in philosophy. A Renaissance artist, Taurelle is also an accomplished musician and worked briefly as an architect and film set designer.

Bernard Taurelle
French Post-Impressionist Painter of Landscape and the Figure
Bernard Taurelle (1931–2007) was a French painter known for his impressionistic landscapes, riverside scenes, and figurative studies, rendered with warm, painterly color and a strong sense of light and atmosphere in the tradition of French Post-Impressionism. A true polymath, Taurelle graduated college at just nineteen with a degree in philosophy, and beyond painting was also an accomplished musician who worked briefly as an architect and film set designer before devoting himself fully to art.
Representation at Galerie Félix Vercel
Taurelle's paintings were exhibited at the prestigious Galerie Félix Vercel, with locations on Avenue Matignon in Paris and Madison Avenue in New York — a gallery whose roster placed Taurelle alongside major twentieth-century French masters including Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Armand Guillaumin, Maurice Utrillo, and Claude Venard. This placement within the Vercel program situated Taurelle's work firmly within the lineage of modern French painting, bridging late Impressionism and the postwar School of Paris.
Subject Matter and Style
Taurelle's work centers on the landscapes and waterways of provincial France — the rivers Eure and Loire, village scenes, farmhouses, and riverside poplars — alongside a substantial body of figurative and nude studies executed with loose, impasto brushwork. Titles such as Le Ruisseau, Bords de Seine, L'Écluse, and Trois Barques reflect his enduring devotion to the French countryside and its rivers, painted across decades from the 1970s through the 1990s.
Market and Legacy
Taurelle's paintings continue to circulate actively at auction and through galleries internationally, including RoGallery and Arthur T. Kalaher Fine Art in the United States, with works held in private collections across North America and Europe. His auction record stands at $6,875, achieved for Le Ruisseau at Christie's New York in 2019, and his work is documented in the archives of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
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Bernard Taurelle exhibited at Galerie Felix Vercel in Paris (Avenue Matignon) and New York (Madison Avenue) alongside such artists as Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, Armand Guillaumin, Maurice Utrillo and Claude Venard. He is part of School of Paris artists that included Marcel Cosson, Jean Jansem, Leni-Dael, Daniel Peccoux, Claude Salomon, Michel Kouliche, Bernard Buffet, Bernard Lorjou, Jean Dufy, and others. Bernard Taurelle paintings are part of the permanent collections of the following French museums:


Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris
Centre Pompidou
Musée de Toulouse
Musee de Bordeaux
Musee de Nice
Musee de Grenoble
Musee de Rouen
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