Bernard Buffet
Bernard Buffet, 1928
French painter
Bernard Buffet 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 at 20 years old.
His meeting with Emmanuel David in 1948, was the real beginning of his international career, leading to his first exhibition at the Drouant-David Gallery in 1949.
Because paint was expensive, he saved money by using little on his canvas. So few material and very little coulour, only greys, black, 'bistres' and greens. His paintings are strong and breathtakingly unforgettable.
Bernard Buffet has also been classed as a figurative painter, opposed to abstracts, but also and certainly to painters which practised 'Social Realism'.
