BUFFET Bernard Still life with fruit bowl on midnight blue background Color lithograph justified

BUFFET Bernard (1928 / 1999)
Still life with a bowl of fruit on a midnight blue background. Color lithograph on paper, signed in the lower right margin.
Artist proof justified XXVI /XXX at the bottom left.
56x76 cm
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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