Vintage Original Mixed Media Painting Bernard Dufour Abstract Village No1 - Art. Great early original by respected french painter Bernard Dufour from circa 1950's. His early work tended towards abstract landscape, but by the late fifties he was painting more figurative self-portraits, male heads of tragic intensity and female nudes. These last add an erotic dimension to work where reality is always seen through the lens of memory or dream: blurred lines, mirror images, everyday objects in eerily unfamiliar surroundin.