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“My youth began at 60.” This declaration of Roger Bissière (b. 1886) should be taken seriously. In fact, he stopped painting during the war, moved back to his native land - Lot, France - and started farming. However, when Bissière resumed his artistic practice around 1945, it was not only a return, but a reaction to painting. On the face of it, a world separates his pre-war production from the one we are exhibiting here. But what brought Bissière to this point? Trained at Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux and Paris, the painter came to the capital city in 1911, and, out of necessity, worked as a …