Bernar Venet
(born 1941)
Bernar Venet is active/lives in New York / France. Bernar Venet is known for painting and sculpture.
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Bernar Venet was born on April 20 1941 at Chateau-Arnoux-Saint-Auban in
the Alps of Haunte-Provence. His father, Jean-Marie Venet, a
schoolteacher and chemist, died at the age of 40, leaving his widow
Adeline Gilly in charge of their four sons, of which Bernar is the
youngest.
1947-57
School as Chateau-Arnoux-Saint-Auban. As a
boy, Bernar Venet suffers from asthma, and is forced to spend long
spells at spas and an aerium at Saint-Raphael.
With the encouragement of a local artist, he is drawing and painting extensively by the time he is ten.
At age 11, Bernar is invited to exhibit in the Salon de Peinture Pechiney on Paris.
1958
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