The Dina Vierny Gallery is pleased to announce its new exhibition "Camille Bombois – Le théâtre des apparences" opening in February 2026.

In Camille Bombois (1883–1970), every painting is a scene, every figure an actor, every color a sign. The Theatre of Appearances offers a reading of his work as a succession of living tableaux, in which reality presents itself in all its frontal force—without artifice, yet with constant dramatic intensity. Bombois does not narrate the intimate; he stages life as he experienced it, within a pictorial space that is constructed, ordered, and firmly structured.

Like a theatrical set, the figures stand out sharply against backgrounds that are often dark or unified. This formal rigor lends his scenes of everyday life—urban or domestic—a nearly monumental presence, in which gloom dissipates before the fullness of bodies and forms.

This silent dramaturgy, founded on pronounced contrasts and a light that is often artificial, gives his compositions a singular atmosphere, where apparent clarity is always traversed by a form of tension or unease, at times evoking the luminous and subtly anxious mood of Félix Vallotton’s paintings.