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Bernard Buffet

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1928-1999

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  1. Les Myosotis [Forget-Me-Not], from Herbier de Bernard Buffet Commente par Louise de Vilmorin by Bernard Buffet, Image 1.

    Bernard Buffet

    Les Myosotis [Forget-Me-Not], from Herbier de Bernard Buffet Commente par Louise de Vilmorin, 1966

    Lithograph on board

    14 x 9.75 in (35.56 x 24.77 cm)

Bernard Buffet was a French Expressionist painter, born in 1928 in Paris, and committed suicide in 1999 after suffering from Parkinson’s disease. He was a painter, lithographer, and etcher who studied at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts and gained early critical acclaim and fortune through his prolific output – he painted more than 8,000 works in his lifetime – and immediately recognizable stylistic manner. Active during a time when abstraction was the predominant artistic style, Buffet defended representational art and was an active member of the anti-abstraction group L’homme Témoin (The Witness-Man).