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Alain Bertrand Biography
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Alain was born near Paris in 1946. At an early age he was sent to a boarding school near Evreux. This isolation and its proximity to an American air base formed his tastes early in. Here he discovered Rock & Roll, Elvis Presley, cigarettes and most importantly the American Car. After his time in National Service, he worked for Renault for 11 years; while he was there he painted mostly cars and began to sell his drawings to comic books including Tintin, and Pilote.
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It was in 1976 that he first went to USA and it was from then on that his paintings were devoted solely to recording life in the States. He has traveled all over the States, particularly in Arizona and New Mexico where he ‘searched’ for the traces of the American Dream and rolling rusty scrap of cars and trucks littered across the desert.
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In 1979 Alain collaborated with Alain Marouani of the ‘Barclay Records’ in the creation of many record covers including 11 albums for Eddy Mitchell. During this period he also worked with Francis Ford Coppola on the creation of the poster of ‘Coup de Coeur’. Other graphic work included the creation of the poster for the film ‘Y t’il un Francais dans le Salle’; the poster for the film ‘Mommy Dearest’ with Faye Dunaway. He also worked in the States on ad campaigns for such clients as New York Telephone, Atari, and Cherokee Jeeps.
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Between 1982 – 1990 he formed Bahamas a group of illustrators with Patric and Christian Larue, who worked on many national ad campaigns including Darty, Roussel, Renault, Peugeot and Mars. This group showed their individual work at the exhibition of illustrators at L’espace Austerlitz in Paris in 1984 and 1985 winning the prize Marker d’Argent’ awarded by Mecanorma.
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Alain went on to exhibit at many exhibitions during the period 1988 – 1996, including Nice Acropplis, Chateau de Cogolin, Hippodrone de Cagnes sur Mer, Art Expo in Bordeaux, the Salon Retromobile, Expo in grand Prix of Monaco. It was in 1996 that he collaborated with Steven Spielberg on Jurassic Park 2 (The Lost World)
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He regularly exhibits at: Ariel Sibony Gallery, Paris
The Catto Gallery, London
Opera Gallery New York, Miami & Singapore
Galery Luc Pieters, Belgium
Gallerie des Remparts, Bordeaux
Artist’Auto in Retromobile, Paris
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