Collection: Bernard Buffet

A representative French painter after World War II. His melancholy landscapes and figures matched the post-war atmosphere, and he became a popular artist while still a student. He established his unique style of painting with hard, somewhat contoured and simplified forms and monochrome colors, competing with the masters of the French art world alongside his contemporaries Michel Henri, Brasilier, Cathelin, Jansem, and Cassigneul.

Born in Paris in 1928

1943 Admitted to the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, with Michel Henri and Brasilier in the same year

1937 Held his first solo exhibition, with a work purchased by the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris

1949 Awarded the Critiques' Prize

1959 "Bernard Buffet Exhibition" held at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo and Kyoto

1971 Awarded the Legion of Honor

1973 Buffet Museum opened in Shizuoka

1974 A work purchased by the Vatican Museums

1991 Retrospective exhibitions at the Pushkin Museum and the Hermitage Museum

1999 Committed suicide at his home in Southern France

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