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Bernard Buffet
"A painting must be analysed but sensed."
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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Le 4 octobre 1999, à 71 ans, le peintre Bernard Buffet s’est donné la mort dans sa propriété du Domaine de la Baume, à Tourtour (Var) où il vivait retiré. Il souffrait de la maladie de Parkinson et ne pouvait plus travailler. Bernard Buffet repose dans un des lieux qui lui avait procuré le plus de plaisir au monde : ses cendres ont été dispersées dans le parc du Musée Bernard Buffet à Higashino-Hachibudaira, ville de Nagaizumi (Japon). En hommage à sa mémoire, que les pétales de la rose qui porte son nom colorent le vent.
"Entré en peinture comme on entre en religion, il a trouvé une terre d'asile, son atelier. Qui de l'angoisse ou de la sérénité lui tiendra compagnie ? Encore une question inutile ... On parle toujours trop. " - Annabel Buffet
"Il témoigne puissamment du désarroi de notre époque. L'inaction de ses personnages, leur vie absurde, Bernard Buffet les exprime comme un mal dont on est soi-même victime, avec violence en se donnant soi-même tout entier à cette oeuvre de vengeance, c'est à dire en y mêlant intimement l'amour et la haine." - Pierre Descargues
"L'abstrait, c'est limité et ennuyeux, tandis que la peinture figurative est illimitée." - Bernard Buffet
"Les impressionnistes ? Je déteste. Tout ce flou me rend malade." - Bernard Buffet
"De tes mains s’écoulait la lumière / Que tes yeux puisaient dans la terre. / Afin qu'éclate en toi l'orage / Qu'à chaque aube tu couchais sur les toiles..." - Nicolas Buffet, extrait d’un poème hommage
"On te disait mort. On se trompait. Tu es vivant." - Annabel Buffet
Notes of biography
Born in Paris, Bernard Buffet was barely 16 when he enrolled in an art class in a municipal program. He went on to attend Beaux-Arts for two years. Then he started working on his own, independent of any movement or trend. He first showed some of his work with other artists in 1946, which was followed by his participating to various events, Salon d’Automne, Artistes Indépendants, Peintres Témoins de leur Temps. He quickly caught the public’s attention.
Bernard Buffet held his first personal show in Paris in 1947. Together with Lorjou, his elder who gave him encouragement and support, with Rebeyrolle, Minaux, and several others, he founded the group L’Homme Témoin, which would be short-lived.
That was a time when his work took on substance and his popularity shot up. The media started noticing him and he became a public figure. Besides being represented in the main international art shows, Bernard Buffet had personal exhibits in the art capitals of the world. He became the artist of the second half of the 20th century (in 1974, Connaissance des Arts did a survey which showed Buffet as the public’s choice as painter of the post-world war period). In his inimitable style, Buffet takes possession of his subjects. Everyone, connoisseurs as well as the general public, instantly recognizes a Buffet, either in his paintings or his drawings. This certainly explains the measure of his success. In spite of the popular recognition, however, Bernard Buffet never managed to fully convince all of his fellow painters. Who is to say?
Bernard Buffet died in Tourtour on October 4, 1999.
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Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
Complete work(s)
Complete work(s)
*« Buffet, graveur, 1948-1980 », M. Rheims, Ed. de Francony et Galerie M. Garnier, 1983
*« Buffet, lithographe I », C. Sorlier, Ed. M. Trinckvel Draeger, 1979
*« Buffet, lithographe II », C. Sorlier, Ed. A . Sauret, Monte-Carlo, 1987
Bibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Bernard Buffet 1943-1961 », Y. Le Pichon, Maurice Garnier, 1961
- « Bernard Buffet, rétrospective », Musée de la poste, 1978
- « Bernard Buffet 1962-1981 », Y. Le Pichon, Maurice Garnier, 1981
- « Bernard Buffet », A. Avila, Casterman, 1989
- « Bernard Buffet », Collectif, cat d'expo, La Haye, Ed. Waanders Publishers, 2006
- « Bernard Buffet et la Bretagne », Lydia Harambourg, Ed. Palantines, 2006
- « Bernard Buffet », Henry Périer, Cat d'expo, Marseille, Ed. Indigene, 2009
- « Bernard Buffet. Les années 1950. Ent. avec P. Bergé », J. Coignard, Ed. Mazenod, 2016
- « Bernard Buffet, Rétrospective », cat d'expo, M.A .M., Ed. Paris Musées, 2016
- « Bernard Buffet, Intimement », Yann le Pichon, cat d'expo, Ed. Somogy, 2016
To read from the artist :
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Stamp by Bernard Buffet
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
+ Autograph
Handwritten sentence of the artist
Private collection / This document is not for sale
+ A tribute to...
See all the tribute pages...
A tribute to Bernard Buffet
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Le 4 octobre 1999, à 71 ans, le peintre Bernard Buffet s’est donné la mort dans sa propriété du Domaine de la Baume, à Tourtour (Var) où il vivait retiré. Il souffrait de la maladie de Parkinson et ne pouvait plus travailler. Bernard Buffet repose dans un des lieux qui lui avait procuré le plus de plaisir au monde : ses cendres ont été dispersées dans le parc du Musée Bernard Buffet à Higashino-Hachibudaira, ville de Nagaizumi (Japon). En hommage à sa mémoire, que les pétales de la rose qui porte son nom colorent le vent.
"Entré en peinture comme on entre en religion, il a trouvé une terre d'asile, son atelier. Qui de l'angoisse ou de la sérénité lui tiendra compagnie ? Encore une question inutile ... On parle toujours trop. " - Annabel Buffet
"Il témoigne puissamment du désarroi de notre époque. L'inaction de ses personnages, leur vie absurde, Bernard Buffet les exprime comme un mal dont on est soi-même victime, avec violence en se donnant soi-même tout entier à cette oeuvre de vengeance, c'est à dire en y mêlant intimement l'amour et la haine." - Pierre Descargues
"L'abstrait, c'est limité et ennuyeux, tandis que la peinture figurative est illimitée." - Bernard Buffet
"Les impressionnistes ? Je déteste. Tout ce flou me rend malade." - Bernard Buffet
"De tes mains s’écoulait la lumière / Que tes yeux puisaient dans la terre. / Afin qu'éclate en toi l'orage / Qu'à chaque aube tu couchais sur les toiles..." - Nicolas Buffet, extrait d’un poème hommage
"On te disait mort. On se trompait. Tu es vivant." - Annabel Buffet
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