Bernard Buffet "for Sale" Silver Plate

Bernard buffet "For sale"  silver plate with etched decoration of a  rhinoceros . Diam 21 cm. In their case forming a frame like new with certificates 1975 -1977 Signed, titled, numbered and annotated on the back ” The medallist Paris-Engraved on silver BERNARD BUFFET, is a French expressionist painter and engraver. composing characters as well as figures, animals, nudes, landscapes, interiors, still lifes, flowers. A watercolorist, he is also a painter of decorations and an illustrator. When you look closely, Buffet is a classic, almost an academic, the only important academic of our time, who has continued with a personal step the path traced by Monsieur Ingres and Monsieur Courbet. You are not one of those who work at length from a model, who go "on nature". One glance is enough for you and you prefer to recreate your reality in your studio. You are a visionary of a world numbed by solitude. However, he who so quickly found success with the public, is not loved by the elite of his time. The darkness of his line and his repetitive series seduced amateurs, but displeased intellectuals. The recognition of his peers at the Academy of Fine Arts will finally bring him that of the French intelligentsia. More information ask me