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Untitled c1965 print measuring approximately 9 1/2/ x 12 1/4 inches by Bernard Buffet handsigned in pencil obtained from Todd Mueller Autographs Lot 64 in June 1998. Right corner bend not affecting color artwork an signature.Slight handling right border. Bernard Buffet was born July 10, 1928 in Paris, died on October 4, 1999 in Tourtour (Var - France).In December 1943, he entered the « Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts » where he studied for two years. After this he worked alone.In 1946, he had his first painting shown, a self-portrait, at the Salon des Moins de Trente Ans at the Galerie Beaux-Arts.In 1947, he exhibited « L\'homme accoude » at the Salon des Independants and in December of the same year he had his first solo exhibition , at the Art Impressions book shop in Paris, organised by Guy Weelen and Michel Brient. Raymond Cogniat bought, for the Paris National Museum of Modem Art, a painting entitled « Nature morte au poulet ».In April 1948, the painting « Le Buveur » was exhibited at the « Jeune Peinture exhibition » organised at theGalerie Drouant-David. His painting was bought byDoctor Girardin, who, at his death, left it to the Paris Museum of Modern Art.At this timeEmmanuel Davidasked him to sign an exclusive contract with his gallery. This contract was then, to be shared byMaurice Garnier.In June of the same year, he was awarded theCritic\'s Prizeat the Galerie Saint-Placide in Paris, in conjunction with Lorjou. In July there was an exhibition of his works at this same gallery. In November he exhibited: « La ramandeuse de filet » in the Salon d\'Automne. This painting was also bought by Doctor Girardin and was also left to the Paris Museum of Modern Art upon Doctor Girardin\'s death.In 1949, Pierre Descargues published Bernard Buffet at the « Presses Litteraires de France ».ln 1951, his friend Jean Giono let him a small house in Manosque where he lived for a short while before renting an ancient « bergerie » in Nanse, near Reillanne, 17 kilometres from Manosque. He worked there until 1954.In 1953, Louis Aragon wrote, in les Lettres Francaises, an article entitled Le Paysage Francais a quatre siecles et Bernard Buffet 24 ans (Four Centuries of French Landscape Painting and the 24 Years Old Bernard Buffet).In 1955, he was awarded the first prize by the magazine Connaissance des arts, which named the 10 best post-war artists. He met Georges Simenon who became his close friend. He bought property in Domont, near Paris, that he left the following year to live at the « Chateau l\'Arc » near Aix-en-Provence, which was to be his main residence until 1964.In 1958, at the age of 30, the first retrospective of his work was held at Galerie Charpentier.The same year Pierre Berge published Bernard Buffet at Editions Pierre Cailler, and Georges Hourdin published l\'Enfer et le Ciel de Bernard Buffet at Cerf.December 12,1958 Bernard Buffet marriedAnnabel Schwobat Ramatuelle.In 1961 he painted a series of paintings depicting the life of Jesus Christ, intended to decorate the Chapelle de Chateau l\'Arc. Ten years later, at the request of Monseigneur Pasquale Macci (secretary to Pope Paul VI) he offered these paintings to the Vatican Museum where they remain on permanent exhibition.His daughter Virginie was born in 1962, and his daughter Danielle in 1963.In 1964 Maurice Druon published Bernard Buffet at Editions Hachette. Bernard Buffet bought « la Vallee » in Saint-Cast in Britanny where he worked until 1970.From 1965 to 1971 he lived both in Britanny and Paris.In May, 1971 he was named « Chevalier de la Legion d\'Honneur ». In May ,1971 his son Nicolas was born.November 23, 1973 the Bernard Buffet Museum was inaugurated ; it was founded by Kiichiro Okano, in Surugadaira, Japan.March 13, 1974 he was elected to theAcadémie des Beaux-ArtsIn 1978, at the request of the Postal Administration, he designed a stamp depicting l\'Institut et le Pont des Arts.In 1980 he got a Manor in Normandy, which he left in 1986 to live at the Domaine de la Baume, near Tourtour in the Haut-Var.In 1986, Annabel published D\'amour et d\'eau fraiche at Sylvie Messinger, and Georges Durand, la Divine Comedie de Bernard Buffet at Desclee de Brouwer.In 1986, « Bernard Buffet » by Yann le Pichon edited by Maurice Garnier, obtained the Elie Faure Award.December 9, 1988 a large extension to the Bernard Buffet Museum was inaugurated in Japan.In 1989, Alin Alexis Avila published « Bernard Buffet », edited by Nouvelles Editions Francaises aux Editions in 1949 yearly exhibitions were held in February at theGalerie Drouant-David, and as of 1957 at theGalerie David and Garnier, and finally atGalerie Maurice Garnier.The themes for these exhibitions were
1952 -The Passion of Christ
1953 -Landscapes
1954 -Interiors
1955 -Horror of the war
1956 -The Circus
1957 -Paris Landscapes
1958 -Joan of Arc
1959 -New-York Landscapes
1960 -The Birds
1961 -Portraits of Annabel
1962 -The Chapelle de Chateau l\'Arc
1963 -Venice Landscapes
1964 -The Bemard Buffet Museum
1965 -The Ecorches
1966 -Nudes
1967 -The Corrida
1968 -The Beaches
1969 -Churches of France
1970 -Castles of the Loire Valley
1971 -Fools
1972 -Daniele and Virginie
1973 -The Boats
1974 -Landscapes
1975 -Landscapes
1976 -Winter Landscapes
1977 -« Dante\'s Infemo. »
1978 -The French Revolution1979 -The Flowers
1980 -Nudes
1981 -Japan
1982 -Self Portraits
1983 -Landscapes
1984 -Small Paintings
1985 -The Automobile
1986 -The Low Countries
1987 -Venice Landscapes
1988 -Sumo and Kabuki
1988 -Natures mortes
1989 -Don Quichotte
1990 -20.000 Leagues Under the Sea
1990 -Britanny
1991 -Sees of New York
1991 -Remembers of Italy
1992 -Les clowns musiciens
1992 -Saint-Petersbourg
1993 -L\'Empire or the pleasurs of the war
1993 -Promenade Provencale
1994 -L\'Odyssee
1995 -Les sept peches capitaux
1996 -Pekin
1997 -Regates
1998 -The house
1999 -Mes singes
2000 -The death
Bernard Buffet has had many solo exhibitions world-wide, including New York, Chicago, Palm Beach, Montréal, Vancouver, Tokyo, Osaka, Johannesburg, Londres, Amsterdam, Bruxelles, Berlin, Varsovie, Bâle, Zurich, Genève, Rome, Venise, Milan, Madrid.The major retrospective exhibitions of his work include :
In 1958 : Galerie Charpentier,ParisIn 1959 : The French Institute, inBerlin
In 1959 : At Knokke le Zoute, inBelgium
In 1963 : The Museum of Modem Art, inTokyo
In 1969 : Unterlinden Museum inColmar
In 1977 : At the Gemeentmuseum,Wieger Deurne, Holland
In 1978 : The Postal Museum,Paris
In 1983 : Seedamm Cultural Center,Zurich
In 1985 : Refectoire des Jacobins,Toulouse
In 1987 : The Odakyu Museum,Tokyo
In 1991 : Pouchkine Museum,Moscou
In 1991 : Ermitage Museum,Saint-Petersbourg
In 1991 : Hyundai Museum,Seoul
In 1993 : Gustave Courbet Museum,Ornans
In 1994 : Documenta Halle,KasselIn 1995 : The Odakyu Museum,Tokyo
In 1996 : Beaux-arts Museum,Kaoshiung
Bernard Buffet illustrated the following works :
Recherche de la Purete, by Jean Giono, 1953
La Passion du Christ, 1954
La voix Humaine, by Jean Cocteau, 1957
Les Voyages Fantastiques, by Cyrano de Bergerac, 1958
Saint-Cast, poem by Baudelaire, 1962
Toxique, by Francoise Sagan, 1964
L\'Herbier, by Louise de Vilmorin, 1966
Mon Cirque, 1968
Jeux de Dames, poems by Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, 1970
L\'Enfer, by Dante, 1976
La Revolution Francaise, 1977
Saint-Tropez, by Annabel, 1979
Le Voyage au Japon, by Annabel, 1981
Buffet has created the decor for the following :
La Chambre, by Georges Simenon, for the Ballets de Roland Petit in 1955
Le Rendez-vous manque, by Francoise Sagan in 1958
Patron, by Marcel Ayme in 1959
Carmenby Bizet for l\'Opera de Marseille in 1962
Le Grand Cirque, by Katchaturian, for Serge Lifar. Opera de Paris Ischtar by Vincent d\'lndy, for Serge Lifar
La Valse, de Maurice Ravel pour l\'Opera-Comique, 1970Bernard Buffet, a French painter whose barren landscapes, harsh still lifes, gaunt religious scenes and sad circus clowns brought him early fame and fortune but little enduring critical esteem, died yesterday at his home in the Var region of southern France. He was 71.
He was a suicide, said law enforcement officials, who gave no further information. Mr. Buffet suffered from Parkinson\'s disease and could no longer work, said Maurice Garnier, a Parisian art dealer who had worked with the artist for 51 years.
Mr. Buffet was born in Paris, started drawing around age 10 and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Highly precocious, he had his first solo show in Paris in 1947 and in 1948, at age 20, was awarded the Prix de la Critique jointly with an older painter, Bernard Lorjou.
By then he had developed a distinctive style of elongated, spiky forms, somber colors, flattened spaces and an overall mood of loneliness and despair. In signature black outlines that suggested illustrational versions of Giacometti\'s tenuous scaffolds, Mr. Buffet reduced reality to the point of abstraction. His early works included paintings titled \'\'The Horrors of War,\'\' \'\'Hanging From the Gallows,\'\' \'\'The Angel of Destruction\'\' and others showing death camp victims.
His work seemed to reflect the existential alienation and spiritual solitude of postwar Paris, while his youth and slim good looks positioned him on the crest of the future. Along with Yves Saint Laurent, Brigitte Bardot, Roger Vadim and Francoise Sagan, he was included in a 1958 article in The New York Times Magazine titled \'\'France\'s Fabulous Young Five.\'\' A lengthy profile appeared in The New Yorker in 1959. By then Mr. Buffet was exhibiting his work regularly in New York, first at the Kleeman Galleries in 1950, then at Knoedler, John Heller, Niveau and Hutton-Chambard.
By the early 1950\'s Mr. Buffet had gone from being a classic starving artist to one who lived like Picasso. He had two Rolls-Royces, a manservant and a 300-year-old chateau in Provence. Tremendously productive, he was said to have equaled Renoir\'s output in paintings by age 26. Later, as he found himself overwhelmed with commissions, his work became more stylized and decorative, losing its original impact.
Mr. Buffet, who is survived by his wife, Annabel, also worked in engraving, lithography and occasionally sculpture and designed sets for ballets for the Paris Opera.
His work is in the collections of the Tate Gallery in London, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Musee d\'Art Moderne de la Ville Paris and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. There are also two museums in Japan devoted to his work.
Bernard Buffet (French: [byfɛ]; 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).[1]
Contents [hide]1 Life and work2 Theme exhibitions (selection)3 Awards4 Collections (selection)5 Cultural references5.1 Film6 References7 External linksLife and work[edit]Buffet was born in Paris, France, and studied art there at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (National School of the Fine Arts) and worked in the studio of the painter Eugène Narbonne. Among his classmates were Maurice Boitel and Louis Vuillermoz.
Sustained by the picture-dealer Maurice Garnier, 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. Buffet illustrated \"Les Chants de Maldoror\" written by Comte de Lautréamont in 1952. In 1955, he was awarded the first prize by the magazine Connaissance des arts, which named the 10 best post-war artists. In 1958, at the age of 30, the first retrospective of his work was held at the Galerie Charpentier.
Pierre Bergé was Buffet\'s live-in lover until Bergé[2] left Buffet for Yves Saint Laurent.
On 12 December 1958, Buffet married the writer and actress Annabel Schwob. His daughter Virginie was born in 1962, and later, daughter Danielle in 1963. His son Nicolas, was born in 1973, the same year that he was named \"Chevalier de la Légion d\'honneur\".
On 23 November 1973, the Bernard Buffet Museum was founded by Kiichiro Okano, in Surugadaira, Japan.
At the request of the French postal administration in 1978, he designed a stamp depicting the Institut et le Pont des Arts – on this occasion the Post Museum arranged a retrospective of his works.[3]
Buffet created more than 8,000 paintings and many prints as well.
Buffet committed suicide[4] at his home in Tourtour, southern France, on 4 October 1999. He was suffering from Parkinson\'s disease and was no longer able to work. Police said that Buffet died around 4 p.m after putting his head in a plastic bag attached around his neck with tape.
Theme exhibitions (selection)[edit]
Femme avec un chapeau roseby Buffet, 1967, on a 1986 Yugoslavian stamp1952 La Passion du Christ1954 Horreur de la Guerre1958 Jeanne d\'Arc1961 Portraits d\'Annabel1962 La Chapelle de Château l\'Arc1965 Les ecorches1967 La corrida1971 Les Folles1977 L\'enfer de Dante1978 The French Revolution1989 Vingt mille lieues sous les mers1991 Souvenirs d\'Italie1991 New York1992 Les Clowns Musiciens1992 Saint-Petersburg1993 L\'Empire ou les plaisirs de la guerre1993 Promenade Provencale1995 Sept peches capitaux1996 Pekin1998 La maison1999 Mes Singes2000 La mortAwards[edit]1947 Member of the Salon d\'Automne1947 Member of the Société des Artistes Indépendants1948 co-recipient of the Prix de la Critique with Bernard Lorjou1950 Prix Puvis de Chavannes1955 First Prize by Magazine Connaissance1973 Officer of the Légion d\'Honneur1974 Member of the Académie des Beaux-ArtsCollections (selection)[edit]ARTAX, DüsseldorfBoca Raton Museum of ArtCa la Ghironda, BolognaKunstmuseum Walter, AugsburgMusée d´art moderne de Lille, Villeneuve d´AscqMuseum of Contemporary Art, SkopjeNational Gallery for Foreign Art, SofiaNational Gallery of Canada, OttawaNational Museum of Western Art, TokyoTampere Art MuseumTate Gallery, LondonWellside Gallery, Seoul
Listed French Artist BERNARD BUFFET Original Signed Rare early work Listed d:
$250.00