Born on April 20 1941 at Chateau-Arnoux-Saint-Auban in the Alps of Haunte-Provence. His father, Jean-Marie Venet, a schoolteacher and chemist, dies at the age of 40, leaving his widow Adeline Gilly in charge of their four sons, of which Bernar is the youngest.1947-57School as Chateau-Arnoux-Saint-Auban. As a boy, Bernar Venet suffers from asthma, and is forced to spend long spells at spas and an aerium at Saint-Raphael.With the encouragement of a local artist, he is drawing and painting extensively by the time he is ten.At age 11, Bernar is invited to exhibit in the Salon de Peinture Pechiney on Paris.1958Works as a stage designer for the Nice City Opera. Period of highly stylized paintings described by himself as "symbolic".
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