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5) Bernard Buffet Colored Lithographs City Scape Prints

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:225.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 770.00 USD
5) Bernard Buffet Colored Lithographs City Scape Prints
Artist: Bernard BuffetMedium: Colored lithographsMatte: Double mattedImage size: 6" x 8" to 6 1/2" x 8 1/2"Matte size: (2) 15" x 12" and (3) 15" x 15"Condition: Very good; some smudge marks on the outside mattingBiographyFor his admirers, Bernard Buffet is the "pure genius". He was admitted in "Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts" at the age of 15, then introduced among collectors by the painter "Aujame" and rewarded "Prix de la critique" (Critics Award) at 20 years old. Bernard Buffet is recognised as a master in his art, and his paintings are collected in the most famous museums around the world. Bernard Buffet represents a typical demonstration of the divorce between the French and Contemporary Art. Popular artist by excellence, Bernard Buffet loved by the public is however detested by elitists whom hold against him his prolixity : 8,000 paintings, water colors,drawings, lithographs and engravings.So few material and very little colour, only greys, black, "bistres", and greens.  <a href="http://museebernardbuffet.com/4550/buffet455017g.jpg"></a>His paintings are strong and breathtakingly unforgettable<a href="http://museebernardbuffet.com/4550/buffet455022g.jpg"></a>.  Bernard Buffet's style can be recognised among others by a network of "dry" straight lines grey gaces, wrinkled foreheads, scarce straight hair, tensed hands. His characters seemed crucified. This new artistic personality is recognised : Bernard Buffet's style is born.Bernard BUFFET has also been classed as a figurative painter, opposed to abstracts, but also and certainly to painters which practised "Social Realism".*Retrieved from: http://museebernardbuffet.com/enminibio.html