"La Jatte aux Poires" (Pear Bowl) is an oil on canvas still life by Guy Bardone depicting a tabletop arrangement of pears, flowers, and garlic. The composition is constructed through simplified forms and broad areas of color, with a white tablecloth set against an ochre background. Signed lower left and titled on the verso. Presented in a painted wooden frame.
Guy Bardone (1927–2015) was a French Neo Figurative painter known for still lifes and landscapes. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon and the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris under Maurice Brianchon and Francois Desnoyer. In 1952, he received the Prix Felix Feneon, followed by the Greenshields Prize in 1957, establishing his reputation within post-war French figurative painting.
