Breton Women in the Meadow
Emile Bernard, 1888
son of a cloth merchant
Workshop of Fernand Cormon (1884-86)
1884 – studies alongside Louis Anquetin and Toulouse-Lautrec at the Atelier Cormon
1886 – becomes acquainted with Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh
1887 – exhibition with Vincent van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec at the Grand Restaurant-Bouillon
1888 – paintings alongside Paul Gauguin at Pont-Aven
1889 – exhibits Cloisonnist paintings at the Café Volpini near the Exposition universelle
1892 – Bernard organizes the first French retrospective exhibition of Vincent van Gogh's work; exhibits at the Salon de la Rose+Croix
1893 - moves to Cairo (until 1903)
1905 – Bernard founds the art journal Aesthetic Renovation
1910 - publishes Fundamental and Traditional Aesthetics According to the Masters of All Eras
Italy (1893); Egypt (1893-1903); Venice (1903-04)
Bathers with a Red Cow , 1887 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
Self-Portrait with Portrait of Gauguin in the Background , 1888 (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam)
Madeleine in the Bois d'Amour , 1888 (Musée d'Orsay)
Hashish Smoker , 1900 (Musée d'Orsay)
Luthi, Jean-Jacques. Emile Bernard: catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint. Paris: Editions SIDE, 1982 (in French)
Stevens, Mary Anne, et. al. Emile Bernard, 1868-1941: a Pioneer of Modern Art. Exhibition catalogue. Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 1990