Bernard MANDEVILLE (1921-2000) Composition, 1999 Gouache and collage. Signed and dated lower right. 18.5 x 32.5 cm Provenance : Galerie Claude Dorval, Paris. Painter, collagist and illustrator, Bernard Mandeville abandoned figurative art to devote himself to abstraction in 1958. He exhibited in Paris (galleries Weil, Claude Dorval, Sfez, Vercamer, etc.), Luxembourg, Geneva, Milan, New York, Baden-Baden, Bonn, Larvik (Norway), Lisbon, Liège, Zürich and elsewhere. He also illustrated Eugène Guillevic's poetry in 1988.