Exposition "Maurice Bonnet, le peintre et la montagne"

Born in Belleville-sur-Saône in 1928, Maurice Bonnet entered the Lyon School of Fine Arts at the age of 17 where he was a student in the architecture and interior decoration class and where he became friends with friendship with his peers, notably Jacques Truphémus and Jean Fusaro. He pursued a career as an interior designer while at the same time developing a passion for drawing and painting to which he devoted himself entirely from 1975. He shared his life and his palette between his mountain pasture of Mont du Villard in Megève and its Mediterranean villa in Cannes. The theme of the mountain inspired him a lot, as evidenced by his exhibitions in Megève “The Old Man and the Mountain” in 2009 and “The Rainbow of the Seasons” in 2018.
In this new exhibition, oils on canvas, gouache watercolors, charcoal, acrylics, mixed media, Maurice Bonnet's works combine chalk, pencils, brushes and pastels. Its mountain landscapes and its inhabitants, its still lifes, its representations of Megève farms and their herds, of the village's sleigh horses are all precious moments and moving testimonies of a simple and authentic mountain life.
With an interview with the painter carried out in the summer of 2018 on his farm in Mont du Villard.