Bernard Dufour (1922-2016) - Deux jeunes modèles

Artist: Bernard Dufour (Paris, 1922-2016)
Title: Two Young Models.
Medium: Mixed media. Canvas mounted on cardboard.
Overall dimensions: 56 x 46 cm
Dufour's figurative art often contains erotic elements. The models in his paintings are often in the company of the painter. This visible relationship with the model draws the viewer of his photographs into a voyeuristic position. The fusion of love and death has been a theme, as in a large canvas (2.76 × 5.05 m) from 1975 depicting the autopsied body of Red Army Faction militant Holger Meins juxtaposed with Dufour's nude wife, Martine.
Exhibitions
2001: Exhibition of glass plates at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie
2006: 40-painting retrospective at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Strasbourg, organized by Fabrice Hergott
2012: “Manipulations”
2015: Trigano Gallery, Paris; Portrait of Pierre Guyotat nude, at the Azzedine Alaia Gallery, during an exhibition devoted to the writer and his artist friends.
2017: Zürcher Gallery, Paris.
2019: Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, with a lecture at the Beaux-Arts de Paris on Bernard Dufour by Marc Desgrandchamps.
Today, Dufour's work is a collectible piece worldwide.