BUFFET Bernard (1928 / 1999)
Anthuriums and irises, 1981.
Colour lithograph signed “Bernard Buffet” in the margin at the bottom right, indicated EA XXX/XXX at the bottom left.
76 x 58 cm
Bibliography: Sorlier catalogue raisonné no. 389.
Certificate of authenticity.
Bernard BUFFET (Bernard Léon Edmond Buffet), 1928 / 1999 (French)
Painter, set painter, watercolourist, sculptor, illustrator.
In Paris, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts and joined the studio of the painter Eugène Narbonne. There, he became friends with his classmates Maurice Boitel and Louis Vuillermoz. He exhibited in 1947 at the Salon des Indépendants, the same year the French government purchased his first painting for the Musée National d'Art Moderne. In 1952, he won the Prix Antral awarded by the city of Paris. Rejecting all forms of abstract art and impressionism, Buffet immersed himself in the broad black strokes and bright colors of expressionism, composing characters as well as figures, clowns, animals, nudes, landscapes, interiors, still lifes, flowers, and religious paintings. He painted all over the world. He was particularly devoted to Japan, where a museum is entirely dedicated to him, to the point that his own ashes were scattered there. His significant output still makes him an active artist and present in our imagination despite his death. Museums: Clermont-Ferrand, Higashino, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Vatican. Exhibited: New York, Chicago, Palm Beach (Florida), Montreal, Vancouver, Tokyo, Osaka, Johannesburg, London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Berlin, Warsaw, Basel, Zurich, Geneva, Rome, Venice, Milan, Madrid, Paris, Lyon, Toulon,…
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