Bernard Lamarche-Vadel

[1] – 2 May 2000, La Croixille in Mayenne) was a French writer, poet, art critic and collector.

The son of a veterinarian, self-taught, his tastes for art and literature earned him a paternal anathema.

A graduate from the École pratique des hautes études in art sociology (1970), he subsequently taught at the Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne University and then at ICART in 1979.

A poet and short stories writer, Bernard Lamarche-Vadel composed a work of art critic in the 1970s and founded the magazine Artistes.

Rétrospective", 1978, musée d'Art moderne (ARC), Paris / « Finir en beauté », juin 1981[3]) He committed suicide in 2000 aged 50, in his castle of La Rongère.