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Bernard Vercruyce

Bernard Vercruyce (Born 1949) is active/lives in France.  Bernard Vercruyce is known for Paintings of animals in serene settings, cat specailty, naive art.

Bernard Vercruyce is a French painter born in 1949 in Reims, France.

Self-taught painter, he was discovered by Anatole Jakovsky, the art critic specializing in naive art. After various trades - hairdresser, driving school instructor, second-hand dealer and fairground merchant - this last profession allowing him to have more time, he began to paint regularly since 1971. His first exhibition in 1973 took place with his friend. the naive sculptor Robert Noël at the Cergy Pontoise Cultural Center.

Since then, his work has been present in many museums in France and abroad. In the mid-1980s he began to paint mostly cats, thus becoming an animal artist.

In 1994 he was named Academician of the Cat by the Accademia dei gatti magici in Rome for his body of work. In 2000, the Orléans Museum devoted a retrospective of his work to him. In 2005, the Anatole Jakovsky International Museum of Naive Art in Nice devoted a retrospective to his engraved work.

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Facts about Bernard Vercruyce

Bernard Vercruyce is a French painter born in 1949 in Reims, France.

Self-taught painter, he was discovered by Anatole Jakovsky, the art critic specializing in naive art. After various trades - hairdresser, driving school instructor, second-hand dealer and fairground merchant - this last profession allowing him to have more time, he began to paint regularly since 1971. His first exhibition in 1973 took place with his friend. the naive sculptor Robert Noël at the Cergy Pontoise Cultural Center.

Since then, his work has been present in many museums in France and abroad. In the mid-1980s he began to paint mostly cats, thus becoming an animal artist.

In 1994 he was named Academician of the Cat by the Accademia dei gatti mag  ...  Displaying 750 of 1168 characters.

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