OF COURSE YOU RECOGNIZE HIM...
Tête de Clown - 1955 In my last chapter on Magritte, I told you that he was so identifiable that his work could not be stolen. In fact a picture had been stolen but was returned to the museum some three years later as it couldn’t be sold.
I feel this is the same with Bernard Buffet. Once again, we all know his work - probably you have come across his clown or his owl Le Petit Duc -1969 or even a self portrait.
You certainly don’t have to be an art genius or historian to know the picture is a Bernard Buffet. Self Portrait -1966 Never the less, I don’t think that I have ever seen a retrospective of his work before. He was born in 1928 and took his life in 1999. He had Parkinson’s and could no longer hold a brush. Buffet is considered to be one of the most famous French painters of the 20th Century but he is also one of the most contentious. There are so many descriptions of his work. Let’s look at a few « Only the works from his early pe