“Later, the figures ... are almost unreadable, so embedded are they in a chaotic matrix of paint. Indeed, the true subject of this work is the primacy of paint, with its malleable and suggestive nature. The decades between these poles burgeoned with portraits of every description: sailors and magistrates, café patrons and Spanish ladies among them. Many were drawn from memory, the catalytic residue that prompted Bourguignon to muse, "It is amazing what people can carry in their hearts.”

Jeanne Fryer-Kohles
Excerpt from Retrospective Catalog
2001