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Kooness

Bernard Buffet

1999
France

8 Works exhibited on Kooness

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Works by Bernard Buffet

Cafetière Jaune (Yellow Coffee Pot)

1955

Prints

78.74 x 63.5cm

452,00 €

Rooster

1953

Prints

50.8 x 36.8cm

776,00 €

Purple Flower

1068

Prints

35.6 x 25.4cm

320,00 €

Place de la Concorde

1968

Prints

64.8 x 49.5cm

548,00 €

La Plage

1968

Prints

35.6 x 25.4cm

274,00 €

Game Table

1970

Prints

66 x 50.8cm

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Notre Dame

1968

Prints

64.8 x 49.5cm

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Bernard Buffet was a French painter of Expressionism and a member of the anti-abstract art group "L'homme Témoin" (the Witness-Man). 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 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. Buffet created more than 8,000 paintings and many prints as well. Buffet died in 1999. 

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-Arts