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"Le Pont Neuf", 1968, color lithograph on wove paper, signed and number 107/125 in pencil by the artist, Bernard Buffet, with margins, a very good, clean impression with strong colors, 16 ½" x 20 1/8", sheet size 19 ½" x 25 ¾" (Sorlier 124). Bernard Buffet (1928-1999) was a French artist whose figurative prints express a sense of anxiety associated with the philosophical movement known as Existentialism. Buffet was born in Paris on July 10, 1928. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Working under the influence of the French painter Francis Gruber, Buffet attracted critical attention immediately, and in 1948 was the joint winner, together with Bernard Lorjou, of the Prix de la Critique. His dedication to realistic, rather than abstract, art was demonstrated by his joining the group Homme-Temoin in 1949. Throughout his career Buffet favored tragic subjects frequently executing scenes representing the horrors of warfare. Much of his work captured the troubled mood of French society in the post-World War II era. His later works include landscapes, as well as expressive narrative pieces. "Le Pont Neuf" brilliantly exemplifies Buffet's later Paris landscape work. Buffet's genius lies in his synthesis of modern pictorial forms, with traditional techniques and subject matter. This Buffet is in a 32 ¼" x 39 ½" hand applied weathered bronze leaf frame that has been antiqued. The fillet is a weathered bronze echoing the frame. The outer and inner seurat sand linen and deeply rapped and beveled spruce suede mats are acid and lignin free and are protected with Acrylite-AR OP3 (UV) by CYRO ... SOLD
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