La Baume, la salle à manger - Bernard Buffet - 1987 #bernandbuffet | Contemporary Art

Nicholas Foulkes, co-curator of ‘La France de Bernard Buffet’, shares his thoughts on one of the artist’s most unforgettable subjects: the clowns. First painted in 1955, they quickly became icons of Buffet’s world: not joyful performers, but fragile souls hiding behind makeup and masks. Their eyes drift away, their smiles barely appear, their faces marked by melancholy and time and just a hint of drama. Their beauty lies in that tension: fragile, dramatic, and utterly captivating. ‘La France de

Fin 2024, plusieurs œuvres du célèbre peintre expressionniste Bernard Buffet avaient été dérobées par des malfaiteurs chez un collectionneur. Des enquêteurs spécialisés les ont retrouvées. #art #vol #actualités #tf1info | TF1 INFO

Best known for his representational work, Buffet's paintings are often figurative, graphic, and central in their compositions. He developed over the years a distinctive style of elongated, spiky forms, somber colors, flattened spaces and an overall mood of loneliness and despair. His oeuvre revolved around ideas of art history, death, sexuality, popular culture, and politics while often directly referencing contemporary events and artists. | Opera Gallery