L’automne, ses Débuts – Jean Claude Mayodon

De Bomainq, Jean (Jean Claude Mayodon, dit) (1938 – 1981)
“L’automne, ses débuts”
Oil on canvas signed lower right, titled on the reverse
Dimension:24″ x 12″ 61 x 30,5 

De Bomainq was born Jean Claude Mayodon April 24,1938 Fontainebleau, Seine et Marne France He signed North American work “De Bomaniq” his mothers maiden name.

The talent of this prodigious and prolific artist was recognized at the early age of fourteen when he was awarded the First Prize of Ile-de-France (1952). This prize enabled him to move to Paris and study at the Académie des beaux-arts of Paris (1957-1961). He was accepted later to the famous École Du Louvre from which he graduated with a Ph.D. in Art History (1962).

His unique style made him one of the biggest “exuberant impressionists”. He painted subjects as French rural landscapes, still lives, bouquets, farm and city workers, clowns and occasionally horses who were depicting his different states of mind. During his short but impressive career, he managed to impose his works in numerous public collections: Houston Space Program, The Center of Medical Research of the University of Montreal and in French museums: le Musée de la Ville de Paris, the Galerie de Guerre Museum, the Sceaux Museum and the National Library of Paris. Art critics compared Mayodon to French painters of the beginning of the XXth century such as Danty, Vlaminck and Cézanne.

Although he considered himself as a “social expressionist” artist, Jean-Claude Mayodon was a painter endowed with a extraordinary creative energy.

Jean-Claude Mayodon lived and studied successively in Spain, Germany, Austria and Scandinavia before settling in Montréal during the 1967 World Exhibition.