Bernard Buffet - rétrospective, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Paris: Paris Musees, 2016. Hardcover. Steel blue boards; color image and black lettering. 258 pp. with color images. Heavy at 5 pounds and likely will require extra postage. New; in shrink wrap. Item #160948
ISBN: 9782759603312
Text in French. Catalogue from the exhibition of October 2016 to March 2017. The Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris organised a retrospective of the work of Bernard Buffet (1928–1999), one of the most famous French painters of the 20th century, but also one of the most contentious. In a choice of a hundred paintings this exhibition takes a fresh look at an oeuvre which in fact remains little known to the public at large. The chronologically-structured retrospective opened with Buffet's beginnings, when his work was triggering a new awareness of a wide range of artistic forms and objects. Thus it covers the postwar years and their debate about realism, figuration and abstraction; and overall it highlights the paradox of an artist who was drawing on history painting in the context of the disappearance of the subject, and whose life was a blend of artistic austerity and financial ease, of public success and a rejection of the art world. Alongside his favourite subjects – self-portraits, still lifes – the exhibition presented the other themes he worked through in his annual exhibitions at Galerie Garnier: religion (The Passion of Christ), literature (Dante's Inferno, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea) and allegory (The Birds, The Mad Women). The emphasis will be on his enduring concern with history painting (the Horror of War series) and the history of painting (The Sleepers, after Courbet), and on his last, spectacular series, Death, with its references to the memento mori of medieval times. The catalogue provides new studies of the artist by French and international historians, as well as articles by writers and critics of the time and interviews with Buffet's artist contemporaries. - from mam.paris.fr.
OCLC: 969925627
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