Draft:Bernard Bouts

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Bernard Bouts
Born	Bernard Robert Marie Bouts (1909-12-02)2 December 1909 Versailles, France
Died	2 March 1986(1986-03-02) (aged 76) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Education	Trained under sculptor and philosopher Henri Charlier (1930-1940)
Known for	Painting, seascapes

Bernard Bouts (Versailles, 2 December 1909 – Rio de Janeiro, 2 March 1986) was a French painter who lived in Argentina and later Brazil, known for his seascapes and for spending roughly a decade living and painting aboard his schooner, the Cisne ("Swan"), which doubled as his studio.. He trained under the Christian sculptor and philosopher Henri Charlier (1883–1975), from whom he adopted a rejection of chiaroscuro and geometric perspective in favor of a painting built on line and form. He exhibited regularly at the New York gallery Wildenstein between the 1950s and 1970s and took part in the 1st Bienal of the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo in 1951.

Born in Versailles, from a Dutch family, he was said to be a descendant of the Flemish painter Dirk Bouts. Bouts grew up in Brittany, where his deep interest in the sea began. He began his career as an apprentice to the sculptor and philosopher Henri Charlier from 1929 until the outbreak of the Second World War, in the Champagne region. He remained close to Charlier until Charlier's death in 1975. During the Second World War, in 1941, Bouts left Europe with his wife and children for Buenos Aires, where he lived from then on, aside from extended trips to Bolivia, Peru and Brazil. There he devoted himself to painting and taught philosophy and history of art at the Institut Français d'Études Supérieures in Buenos Aires, and painted murals for churches and private homes in Argentina. He held his first solo exhibition in Buenos Aires in 1944. He took part in the 1st Bienal de São Paulo in 1951, and went on to have a number of shows in Argentina, Brazil and France, exhibiting again at Galerie Wildenstein in Buenos Aires in October 1952 and in Paris in 1953. ```

1. 1. 1. === The floating studio and Brazil ===

```wikitext From the mid-1950s, Bouts lived aboard his sailboat "Andariego," sailing the Atlantic coasts of Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. In 1961, Bouts acquired the schooner "Cisne" in Salvador, Bahia, and lived aboard it with his family for the next decade, sailing the Brazilian coast. In 1970, he sold the boat and settled in Rio de Janeiro, in Cosme Velho, where he lived until his death. ```

1. 1. 1. === Career and recognition ===

```wikitext Bouts exhibited repeatedly at Galerie Wildenstein in Buenos Aires, including in October 1952 and October 1954, and at Wildenstein & Co. in New York in November 1957. He exhibited "Peintures Péruviennes" at the Galerie Beaux-Arts in Paris. He took part in the 1st Bienal de São Paulo in 1951. Bernard Bouts was included in the Bénézit dictionary of painters, sculptors, draughtsmen and engravers. "Bouts, Bernard". Bénézit Dictionary of Artists (in French) (1976 ed.). Oxford University Press. He published two books: Pages de journal, a collection of journal entries, published by Éditions Dominique Martin Morin, and Oeuvres, an album of 120 reproductions of his paintings, drawings and sculptures, also published by Éditions Dominique Martin Morin. ```

1. 1. 1. === Style ===

```wikitext In his own writing, Bouts described his aim as finding "a special quality of shape and color in a free rhythm," rejecting the idea that "exactitude of proportion, perspective and anatomy" was necessary for artistic merit. In the catalogue for his 1953 Paris exhibition, Bouts wrote that his approach was to "preserve the nature of things, remain within the limits of necessary abstraction, seek expression through form, [and] push colour to its maximum." ```

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1. 1. Plantillas de referencia completas (para poner al final del artículo o en Módulo:Citas)

```wikitext Bernard Bouts. New York: Wildenstein & Co., Inc. 1957.

Exposición Bernard Bouts (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Wildenstein. October 1952.

Exposición B. Bouts (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Wildenstein. October 1954.

Exposition Bernard Bouts: Peintures Péruviennes (in French). Paris: Galerie Beaux-Arts / Wildenstein & Co. 1953.

Bouts, Bernard (1985). Pages de journal (in French). Éditions Dominique Martin Morin. ISBN 978-2-85652-082-6.

Bouts, Bernard (2000). Oeuvres (in French). Éditions Dominique Martin Morin. p. 144. ISBN 978-2-85652-083-3.

Selected exhibitions

Year	Location	Venue
1943	Buenos Aires	Instituto de Arte Moderna
1951	São Paulo	1st MAM Biennial
1951, 1952	Buenos Aires	Galería Wildenstein
1953	Paris	Galerie Beaux-Arts
1957	New York	Wildenstein Gallery
1966	São Paulo	MASP
1968, 1970	Buenos Aires	Galería Wildenstein
1969, 1979	São Paulo	Chelsea Art Galleries
1972	New York	Wildenstein Gallery
1992	Rio de Janeiro	CCBB (retrospective)
2025	São Paulo	Galeria MAPA ("Dentro do Cisne")