Buffet Bernard Les begonias 1977 Justified Color Lithograph

BUFFET Bernard (1928 / 1999)

Begonias, 1977.

Color lithograph on paper, signed “Bernard Buffet” in the lower right margin.

Numbered 71/150 lower left.

75,5x56 cm

Catalog raisonné Sorlier n°234

Bernard BUFFET (Bernard Léon Edmond Buffet), 1928 / 1999 (French)

Painter, set painter, watercolourist, sculptor, illustrator.

In Paris he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, joined the studio of the painter Eugène Narbonne. He became friends there with his comrades Maurice Boitel and Louis Vuillermoz. He exhibited in 1947 at the Salon des Indépendants, the same year the State bought his first painting for the National Museum of Modern Art. In 1952, he won the Antral Prize awarded by the city of Paris.

Rejecting all forms of abstract and impressionist art, Buffet dives into 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 paints all over the world. He is particularly devoted to Japan, where a museum is entirely dedicated to him, so much so that his own ashes were scattered there. His important production still makes him an active and present artist 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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