Bernard Buffet, 1928 - 1999
LE YACHT, c. 1968
Oil on canvas
21 1/4 by 25 5/8 in., 54 by 65 cm
Private collection
Bernard Buffet (10 July 1928 – 4 October 1999)
was a French painter of Expressionism and a member of the anti-abstract art
group L'homme Témoin (the Witness-Man).
Buffet was
born in Paris, France, and studied art there at the École Nationale Supérieure
des Beaux-Arts and worked in the studio of the painter Eugène Narbonne.
Buffet produced religious pieces, landscapes, portraits and still-lifes.
In 1946, he had his first painting shown, a self-portrait, at the Salon des
Moins de Trente Ans at the Galerie Beaux-Arts. He had at least one major
exhibition every year In 1955, he was awarded the first prize by the magazine
Connaissance des Arts, which named the ten best post-war artists. Bernard Buffet was named "Chevalier de la Légion
d'Honneur" in 1973.
On 23
November 1973, the Bernard Buffet Museum was founded by Kiichiro Okano, in
Surugadaira, Japan.
Buffet
created more than 8,000 paintings and many prints as well.
Buffet committed suicide at his home in Tourtour, southern
France, on 4 October 1999. More on Bernard
Buffet
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