Life in Rio de Janeiro In 1971, after 20 years at sea and with no address, Bernard Bouts sell his boat in Rio de Janeiro and buys a house in a village in Cosme Velho. It becomes his studio and showroom as well as a home for himself and his wife. Bouts ends his long career at sea and is dedicated solely to his art and memories. Bouts starts to receive friends and admirers who come to admire his art and ideas through his paintings on display as well as its audio-visual assembly, an interesting combination of pictorial art and music. This assembly is composed of the projection of his works along with music and some observations leading his visitors to a better understanding of his ideas. With this same proposal to disseminate his work, in 1981 he published an album entitled "Works of Bernard Bouts" with photographs of drawings, paintings and sculptures as well as some texts. Four years later he published a second book with parts of his memoir and about the art, in an act of leaving to future generations a little of his learning as a sailor and as a painter. At the end of this very year Bouts discovers that he is suffering from cancer. On March 2nd, 1986 he dies and is buried in the cemetery Jardim da Saudade in Rio de Janeiro. In 1992 there was a retrospective exhibition of Bernard Bouts at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil with the sponsorship of Banco Frances e Brasileiro and collaboration of former admirers. < the relationship with the sea		Bernard and Assis Chateaubriand in 1966. Inside “Cisne”: studio and residence in 1966. Bernard in 1983.