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Bernard BuffetLe monocycle (Performer on a Unicycle)1968
1968
About the Item
Le monocycle (Performer on a Unicycle)
Color lithograph, 1968
Signed and numbered in pencil lower left corner
From the portfolio "Mon Cirque" (My Circus)
Edition: 120 (12/120)
Reference: Sorlier, Buffet Lithographs, No. 166
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 26 3/4 x 18 1/2 inches
Sheet size: 28 1/4 x 20 inches
Provenance: Robert Henry Adams, Chicago
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bernard Buffet
Born 10 July 1928
Paris, France
Died 4 October 1999 (aged 71)
Nationality French
Education École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Marie-Thérèse Auffray
Known for Painting, Drawing, Printmaking
Movement Expressionism
Awards Member 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
Bernard Buffet (French: [byfɛ]; 10 July 1928 – 4 October 1999) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor.
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.
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. They adopted three children. Daughter Virginie was born in 1962; daughter Danielle, in 1963; and son Nicolas, 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.
Buffet created more than 8,000 paintings and many prints as well.
Buffet died by suicide 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.
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.
Theme exhibitions (selection)
1952 La Passion du Christ
1954 Horreur de la Guerre
1958 Jeanne d'Arc
1961 Portraits d'Annabel
1962 La Chapelle de Château l'Arc
1965 Les ecorches
1967 La corrida
1971 Les Folles
1977 L'enfer de Dante
1978 The French Revolution
1989 Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
1991 Souvenirs d'Italie
1991 New York
1992 Les Clowns Musiciens
1992 Saint-Petersburg
1993 L'Empire ou les plaisirs de la guerre
1993 Promenade Provencale
1995 Sept peches capitaux
1996 Pekin
1998 La maison
1999 Mes Singes
2000 La mort
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-Arts
Collections (selection)
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
Alexandre de Bothuri collection, Palm Beach, USA " Le Clown Jaune" 1955
- Creator:Bernard Buffet (1928 - 1999, French)
- Creation Year:1968
- Dimensions:Height: 26.75 in (67.95 cm)Width: 18.5 in (46.99 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Fairlawn, OH
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