12. BERNARD BUFFET
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Autoportrait 1 - 1981
oil on canvas - 146 x 114 cm |
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Chateau de la vallee - 1965
engraving - 56.5 x 76.5 cm
engraving - 56.5 x 76.5 cm
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Portrait de famille - 1993
oil on canvas - 232 x 301 cm -
oil on canvas - 232 x 301 cm -
BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1928 in Paris, France. He died in 1999 in Tourtour, France.
Studies:
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In 1943, he
entered the « Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts » where he studied for
two years.
- In 1946, he had his first painting shown, a self-portrait.
- In 1948 he sold his first painting after an exhibition.
He won many prices:
- In 1948 the Critic’s price
- 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 Galerie Charpentier.
- In May, 1971 he was named « Chevalier de la Legion
d'Honneur ».
-1973 the Bernard Buffet Museum was inaugurated ; it was
founded by Kiichiro Okano, in Surugadaira, Japan.
- 1974 he was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts In 1978,
at the request of the Postal Administration, he designed a stamp depicting
l'Institut et le Pont des Arts.
- He commited suicide in 1999
Themes and style:
As a member
of the anti-abstract art group "L'homme Témoin" (the Witness-Man),He
centered his work in paintings and prints on religious themes, landscapes,
portraits and some still life.
Techniques:
Drawing, Painting and print ( etching)
Solo
Exhibitions
Beginning in 1949
yearly exhibitions were held in February at the Galerie Drouant-David, and as
of 1957 at the Galerie David and Garnier, and finally at Galerie 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
Revolution
1979 - 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.
Some selected ones
were:
In 1958 : Galerie
Charpentier, Paris
In 1959 : The French
Institute, in Berlin
In 1959 : At Knokke
le Zoute, in Belgium
In 1963 : The Museum
of Modem Art, in Tokyo
In 1969 : Unterlinden
Museum in Colmar
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, Kassel
In 1995 : The Odakyu Museum, Tokyo
In 1996 : Beaux-arts
Museum, Kaoshiung
Bernard Buffet
illustrated the following works :
Les Chants de
Maldoror, by Lautreamont, 1952
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 :
Concours des Jeunes
Compagnies, in 1948
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
Carmen by 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, 1970
Collections:
ARTAX, Düsseldorf
Boca Raton Museum of
Art
Ca la Ghironda,
Bologna
Kunstmuseum Walter,
Augsburg
Musée d´art moderne
de Lille, Villeneuve d´Ascq
Museum of
Contemporary Art, Skopje
National Gallery for
Foreign Art, Sofia
National Gallery of
Canada, Ottawa
National Museum of
Western Art, Tokyo
Tampere Art Museum
Tate Gallery, London
Wellside Gallery,
Seoul
Awards:
1947 Member of the Salon d'Automne
1947 Member of the Société des Artistes
Indépendants
1948 co-recipient of the Prix de la
Critique with Bernard Lorjou
1950 Prix Puvis de Chavannes
1955 First Prize by Magazine
Connaissance
1973 Officer of the Légion d'Honneur
1974 Member of the Académie des
Beaux-ArtsIn his own words:
In his own words:
"Painting, we do not talk about it, we do not analyse it, we feel it"
Representative
Galleries:
Galerie Drouant-David
Galerie David and
Garnier
Galerie Maurice
Garnier
For
more Information:
http://www.artnet.com/magazine_pre2000/news/darmon/darmon10-25-99.asp
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