Born in Valenciennes in 1884, Marcel Bernanose then studied in Nancy. Cultural advisor to the Governor General in Indochina, he produced a reference work on "Decorative Arts in Tonkin", 1922. On site, he developed painting and engraving for himself and as a teacher.
Back in France in the 1920s, he exhibited in the Salons (Nancy, Paris ...) his landscapes of Lorraine, his views of Paris, the south of France (Villefranche-sur-mer, Saint-Tropez) as well as memories of the Far East.
In 1922, he received the grand prize for the colonial exhibition in Marseille.
He died in 1952.