Landscape By Roger Bonafé Born In 1932

Oil on canvas measuring 65cm x 50cm plus frame 78cm x 63cm signed lower right Bonafé roger free shipping for the European Union Roger Bonafé was born in 1932 in Caux in the Héraut. When he arrived in Paris in the second half of the fifties he lived in the heart of Montmartre. There he rubbed shoulders with the painters of the "Butte", Gen Paul in particular, then Lorjou, Jansem, etc. The click happened: he would be a painter. At the start of the 1960s, it is a very typical painting that we see appearing on the picture rails of the galleries of Montpellier where Bonafé has just settled. Landscape or still life, the writing is simple, precise. His palette is rich and warm with its bright reds, oranges and greens. 1988 was a very important date for him. Indeed, he meets René Chabannes director of the Galerie Christiane Vallé. He says himself: “It was” the “meeting which marked the beginning of an international career”. The exhibitions follow one another from year to year: Republic of China, South Korea, Japan, New York, Dallas, San-Francisco, Chicago, Rio de Janeiro Australia and of course Europe, Geneva, Zurich, London , Barcelona. Roger Bonafé, who has never departed from figuration, shows strong painting, based on a very personal interpretation of reality. “I paint my region, with the elements that tell it best: cypresses, pines, ponds, sea, vines, farmhouses, as I have used the streets and squares bordering the Sacré-Coeur de Montmartre. I fully embrace nature, that's for sure, but if I have to move an element for the composition of the painting and if that's what I want, I move it”. In 2002 his retrospective at the Château de Val impresses the visitor, jostles him, charms him, dazzles him. The Castle in the background is awakened by the presence of a woman in a large red hat, elegant in her attitude, dazzling in her colors. Roger Bonafé once said "I believe that work gives talent"