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Michel Bonnaud trained at the art school in Avignon and combined painting with lithography. With Guy Toubon, he founded the L’Atelier group and became one of its active organisers, linking his practice to the city’s artistic life. Early subjects included nudes, landscapes, still lifes and marine scenes. Orchestras subsequently entered his repertoire, followed by phases characterised by pink and then grey, and an increasing interest in cities. These shifts between motifs and dominant colours marked the development of his painting. Original lithographs for Jacques-Henri Pons’s Ad Libitum in 1967 extended his work into the book. Regular exhibitions at Galerie Ducastel, including a retrospective in 1982, accompanied this investigation across several decades.
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Piguet
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Oil on canvas
"Carcasses de Bateaux"
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2022-03-01 — 2022-03-16
Published result : 200 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 300–500
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