After studying architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Clovis Prévost turned his attention to photography and film. He worked for the Fondation Maeght, a private art foundation in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, which houses a collection of modern art, where he documented the life and work of Surrealist artists such as André Malraux, Joan Miró and Alexander Calder.
In the early 1970s, he collaborated on four short films that the Belgian artist Pol Bury made for the Fondation Maeght. Three of these films are in the museum collection; the fourth, 25 tonnes de colonnes (1973) has not been acquired.
