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Bernard Buffet (French: [byfɛ]; 10 July 1928 – 4 October 1999) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor.

Bernard Buffet
Born(1928-07-10)10 July 1928
Paris, France
Died4 October 1999(1999-10-04) (aged 71)
Tourtour, France
NationalityFrench
EducationÉcole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Marie-Thérèse Auffray
Known forPainting, Drawing, Printmaking
MovementExpressionism
AwardsMember of the Salon d'Automne, 1947

Member of the Société des Artistes Indépendants, 1947
Prix de la Critique, 1948
Prix Puvis de Chavannes, 1950
Officer of the Légion d'Honneur,1973

Member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, 1974

He produced a varied and extensive body of work. His style was exclusively figurative. The artist enjoyed worldwide popularity early in his career but was shunned by art pundits later on.

Today, there is a renewed interest in Bernard Buffet's oeuvre. His works can be seen in the collections of the world's leading museums, including the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, the Tate, and the Museum of Modern Art.


Biography


Bernard Buffet was born in 1928. He hailed from a middle-class family with roots in Northern and Western France. His spent his childhood in Paris. His mother often took him to the Louvre Museum, where he got familiar with the works of Realist painters, such as Gustave Courbet. This is likely to have influenced his style. In 1955, he painted a work that paid tribute to Courbet's Le Sommeil.

Bernard Buffet was a student at the Lycée Carnot during the Nazi occupation of Paris. He travelled to drawings courses in the evenings despite the curfew imposed by the Nazi authorities. He then studied art 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. He met the French painter Marie-Thérèse Auffray and was influenced by her work.

Buffet's mother, Blanche, died from breast cancer in 1945. Seventeen-year-old Buffet was devastated. Losing his mother at an early age remained a source of melancholy throughout his life.

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 ten best post-war artists. In 1958, at the age of 30, the first retrospective of his work was held at the Galerie Charpentier.

Bernard Buffet in his studio in Tourtour, France (1989) Credits: Danielle Buffet
Bernard Buffet in his studio in Tourtour, France (1989) Credits: Danielle Buffet

Pierre Bergé was Buffet's live-in lover until Bergé[1] left Buffet for Yves Saint Laurent.

On 12 December 1958, Buffet married the writer and actress Annabel Schwob. They had three children.[2] Daughter Virginie was born in 1962, daughter Danielle in 1963 and son Nicolas was born in 1973. 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.

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 died by 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.

The popularity of Buffet's work, as well as the level of media attention around his lifestyle, were quite high in the 1950s and 1960s. Although he kept on painting throughout his life, there was a certain decline in interest in his work in the last decades of the 20th century, especially in France. This decline in popularity was partly influenced by his fall from grace with French art pundits, whose support and interest shifted away from figurative art.

In the 21st century, there has been a renewed spike in interest in the work of Buffet. With some successful exhibitions in France and throughout the world. In 2016, British author Nicholas Foulkes published Bernard Buffet: The Invention of the Modern Mega-Artist, in which he offers a controversial biographical account of Buffet's life and work.


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References


  1. Bernard Buffet: Return of the 'poser' – Features – Art. The Independent (16 March 2009). Retrieved on 26 July 2014.
  2. "Survivre à des parents terribles (Deuxième partie)".
  3. MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, "Bernard Buffet Maler Painter Peintre", Brochure, 2008, April
  4. "Bernard Buffet: Return of the 'poser'". The Independent. 16 March 2009. Retrieved 28 August 2009.



На других языках


[de] Bernard Buffet

Bernard Buffet (* 10. Juli 1928 in Paris; † 4. Oktober 1999 in Tourtour, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur) war ein französischer Grafiker und Maler des Expressionismus. Darüber hinaus arbeitete er auch als Illustrator und Bühnenbildner.
- [en] Bernard Buffet

[es] Bernard Buffet

Bernard Buffet (10 de julio de 1928 - 4 de octubre de 1999) fue un pintor francés.

[fr] Bernard Buffet

Bernard Buffet, né le 10 juillet 1928 à Paris et mort le 4 octobre 1999 à Tourtour (Var), est un peintre français expressionniste, composant aussi bien des personnages que des figures, animaux, nus, paysages, intérieurs, natures mortes, fleurs.

[it] Bernard Buffet

Bernard Buffet (Parigi, 10 luglio 1928 – Tourtour, 4 ottobre 1999) è stato un pittore francese, esponente dell'Espressionismo e membro dell'"Anti-Abstract Art Group" denominato "L'homme Témoin"[1].

[ru] Бюффе, Бернар

Бернар Бюффе (фр. Bernard Buffet; 10 июля 1928, Париж — 4 октября 1999, Туртур) — французский художник, широко признанный к двадцати годам за свои работы, несущие хмурое, меланхолическое настроение и отражающие атмосферу, царившую после Второй мировой войны. Известен своим чётко выраженным зарисовочным стилем. Был близок неореалистическим тенденциям, однако критика чаще относила его к мизерабилизму — Бюффе в эти годы был ключевой фигурой данного течения[5].



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