Pierre Boncompain was born in Provence in 1938 and graduated first in his class at the French National Academy of Decorative Arts before going on to study at the National Academy of Fine Arts, where he received the Collioure Prize. Boncompain’s artworks are evocative of the southern France lifestyle; he skillfully presents life’s simple pleasures with strong artistic influence from Matisse and Gauguin.

Boncompain has shown his coveted artworks in museums and galleries around the world, such as the Musée de Lille; Kajikawa Foundation, Kyoto; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Takashimaya Museum, Osaka; Singer Foundation, Holland; Navio Museum, Kyoto; Ambrosiano Library, Milan; and one-man retrospective exhibitions at the Shanghai Art Museum, China and the Musée de Valence, France. He has won the Critic’s Award and the Friends of the Museum of Modern Art (Paris) Charles Pacquement Prize. Among a host of publications, his work has most recently appeared in “Boncompain: Paintings.”