Bernard Buffet (1928-1999) - Still Life With Blackbird

"Nature morte au Merle" is an oil on canvas signed and dated upper left Bernard BUFFET, 1954. Dimensions: 73 x 60 cm - With frame: 94 x 81 cm - Certificate of authenticity from Maurice Garnier. Strong work of a characteristic period of the artist: After the war, Interiors. Glass and bottle of wine, pistol resting on a letter placed on a table. Interior with tapestry from the 1950s. The blackbird, soothing song with the regenerative powers of the beyond and the unconscious. Miserabilistic atmosphere of Bernard Buffet. Miserabilism is an artistic current that consists of painting human misery in a sublime way. In 1955, he succeeded in having the first place in the referendum organized by the Revue Savoir des Arts designating the ten best painters of the post-war period. French expressionist painter, composing both characters and figures, animals, nudes, landscapes, interiors, still lifes, flowers.