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Accademia Fine Art

16 - BERNARD DAMIANO (1926-2000) "Self-portrait as a Cardinal", 1…
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Estimate €400 - €800
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BERNARD DAMIANO (1926-2000) "Self-portrait as a Cardinal", 1977 Oil on canvas, signed lower left and dated on the back. Unframed. Size: 80.5 x 60 cm Exhibited at the Museo Civico di San Remo in the exhibition "La Forma del Colore", a retrospective on the artist in 2003-2004. - Bernard Damiano, an Italian painter and sculptor born in Cuneo, was strongly influenced by Expressionism. After working as a stone and marble mason in Tende and then as a cabinetmaker in Nice in 1951, he began painting while studying the Renaissance painters and the Impressionists. At his first solo exhibition, he was encouraged by Sylvain Vigny, with whom he kept in touch. During the 1970s, his painting moved away from a kinship with Jean Dubuffet, Art Brut and the Cobra movement, drawing his style from neo-expressionism, although he never dated his works, often repeating and retouching the same painting over several years. It is perhaps in the use of "colour strokes" and the flamboyance of vivid flesh against dark backgrounds that a break with the past can be detected. Overall, Bernard Damiano remains "a precursor and a maverick" in that "the sacred and the morbid merge in a kind of wild obsession". He lived successively in Nice, Villefranche-sur-Mer, Vallauris and Nice again, with his studio in a basement on rue Benoit Bunico in Vieux-Nice.
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About the sale Classic Art, Modern, Post-war & Design
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Auction time 06/10/2026 at 10:30 AM
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