From the start, beginning in 1959, he also photographed many artists, famous or little known to the general public, at home or in their studios. He thus captured moments of intimacy with the same sense of composition and the same desire to show "the individual as he is".
Some portraits convey more assertive formal explorations, as in the series devoted to the painter Geneviève Asse, while in others it is the brushes or palettes that stand in for the artist and embody them. The portraits presented in this room all show artists of whom at least one work is held in the collections of the musée d'Art Moderne de Paris.
The work of Jean-François Bauret was first presented at the musée d'Art Moderne de Paris in 1971, in a solo exhibition organised by the ARC section (Animation – Recherche – Confrontation).
The current hanging follows the generous donation to the museum by Madame Claude Bauret Allard, in 2017, of 80 prints.