Bernard Buffet : an intimate portrait / [Bernard Buffet].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Buffet, Nicolas, contributor.

Le Pichon, Yann, organizer, writer of added commentary.

Buisson, Sylvie, organizer, writer of added commentary.

Ooms, Saskia, organizer, writer of added commentary.

Musée de Montmartre, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buffet, Bernard, 1928-1999--Exhibitions.

Buffet, Bernard.

Buffet, Bernard, 1928-1999.

Painting, French--20th century--Exhibitions.

Painting, French.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

159 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 27 cm

Other Title:

Intimate portrait

Place of Publication:

Paris : Somogy Art Publishers : Somogy éditions d'art ; Marseille : Musée de Montmartre, [2016]

Summary:

"Throughout his life, Bernard Buffet revisited the places and themes of his childhood: his beloved Montmartre, from the Place Pigalle, where he was born in 1928, to the Batignolles district, where he grew up, and his house at 20 Rue Cortot, in which he lived for ten years and which is near the Musée de Montmartre; the circus, which he tackled in a series of works between 1955 and the end of the 1990s, with the zany parades of the Cirque Médrano; and the interiors and still lifes, in which he deconstructed space and for which he invented a silent weightlessness by reducing the motifs to their most refined and incisive forms. The painter's main personal interests and the recurrent themes in his work provide the framework for the original itinerary of the exhibition devoted to this 'polymorphic' and multifaceted genius. 'Bernard Buffet: An Intimate Portrait' focuses, in particular, on his fusional connection with the world of literature and the theatre, his commitment and hard work in the Lacourière and Frélaut atelier in Montmartre, his love for Annabel, his wife and muse, and the solitary walks that inspired his landscapes. Exceptional works from the collection of his son Nicolas Buffet are brought together with works from public and private collections to paint an intimate portrait of one of the twentieth century's most famous painters."--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

A Letter to my Father

Sillans-la-Cascade, 26 April 2016

Bernard Buffet Showed me the Sacrèd, Sacrificial Path of his Art

Devoted to Redemptive Human Suffering, Solitude, and Death

Stupefying Beginnings: the Critics Invade the Prodigy's Privacy

Bernard Buffet produced his engravings in a convivial atmosphere, in Montmartre

Bernard Buffet's Commitment to the Intimate Aesthetics of Solitude, Silence, and... Strangeness

Bernard Buffet (1928-1999)

His work was his life and death

The zany parades of the Cirque Médrano

The Batignolles and the Butte: the genesis of his art

Traits for traits

Annabel, Annabel, Annabel: an eternal love

Fusional encounters: literature and theatre

Ins Clean slates ('À tables rases')

Buffon's loving bestiary

Stil' lifes-résuscitated

Solitary walks

The Passion of Christ at his mother's sides

A man at sea.

Notes:

"Exhibition: 'Bernard Buffet, Intimement' ('Bernard Buffet: An Intimate Portrait'), The Musée de Montmartre - Jardins Renoir, 18 October 2016-5 March 2017. ... With the contribution of Nicolas Buffet, the artist's son, ... manager of the Nicolas Buffet Collection: General curator, Yann le Pichon; associate curator, Sylvie Buisson; associate curator and head of conservation, Saskia Ooms; scenographer, Frédéric Beauclair."--Page before title page.

Essays by Nicolas Buffet, Yann le Pichon, Sylvie Buisson, Saskia Ooms.

One leaf of self-portrait of "Nicolas, c. 1994" on transparent wax paper bound between pages 10 and 11.

Errata slip tipped in (1 leaf ; 21 cm).

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Buffet, Bernard, 1928-1999. Paintings. Selections

ISBN:

9782757211281

2757211285

OCLC:

957738689