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A Self-portrait by Émile Bernard preempted by Pont-Aven

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18/4/24 - Acquisition - Pont-Aven, Musée de Pont-Aven - Émile Bernard’s Self-portrait was preempted by the Musée de Pont-Aven and fetched €50 400 at Christie’s sale in Paris on 10 April. It adds a first self-portrait to the group of around fifteen paintings and drawings by the artist already in the museum’s collection, and can perhaps be compared with another of his effigies that recently entered the collections, his pastel portrait by Émile Schuffenecker, which was snapped up at the Talabardon & Gautier sale organised by Ader just over a year ago (see news item of 12/7/23).


Émile Bernard (1868-1941)
Self-portrait, 1897
Oil on canvas - 45 x 40.5 cm
Pont-Aven, Musée
Photo: Christie’s
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Painted in 1897, this Self-portrait belongs to the short…

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