Overview
Émile Henri Bernard was a French Post-Impressionist painter who had close artistic friendships with with Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Eugène Boch. Born in Lille, France in 1868, he moved to Paris to prusue an education at the Collège Sainte-Barbe in 1878. His most notable and accomplished works were done at a young age. He was a teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts before his death in 1941.