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Bernard Lamotte Biography
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Studied painting under Lucien Simon (1861-1945), the portraitist and genre painter.
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Married the widow of Twentieth Century Fox president Sidney R. Kent, Lilyan White Kent, a painter and sculptor, then was introduced to such stars as Marlene Dietrich, Charlie Chaplin, and Greta Garbo.
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Had a studio in Montmartre called Le Bocal [Fish Bowl], where Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote Le petit prince.
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Traveled widely, as far away as Tahiti and India
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Had a studio over Le Grenouille Restaurant on 52nd Street in New York
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Became an American citizen in 1951
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Executed a mural for the White House pool under the Kennedy Administration (now in the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, Boston)
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