Biography

Jean de Bomainq (Jean-Claude Mayodon) (1938-1981)

Born Jean Claude Mayodon on April 24, 1938 in Fontainebleau, France, Jean de Bomainq used his mother's maiden name "de Bomainq" to sign work produced in North-America. He was awarded the prestigious First Prize of the Île-de-France in 1952 at the age of fourteen. The prize enabled him to move to Paris and attend The Academy of Fine Arts in Paris from 1957 to 1961. He then obtained a Ph.D. in art history from the École du Louvre in 1962.

His unique style treated impressionist techniques with exuberance, painting a wide range of subjects: rural landscapes, still lives, bouquets, farm and city workers, clowns, and occasionally horses which depicted his differing states of mind.

His works can be found 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 20th century such as Henri D'Anty, Maurice de Vlaminck and Paul Cézanne.

Jean-Claude Mayodon lived and studied successively in Spain, Germany, Austria and Scandinavia before settling in Montréal during the 1967 World Exhibition; from this point on he signed his work 'Jean de Bomainq'.

Source: http://www.antiquesinterchange.com/abn/antiques_painting_1675.html