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Bernard Buffet 1978 French Stamp Graphic in Vintage Frame - $35 (glen park)
Mission near Bosworth
size / dimensions:
14" x 11"
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This is a graphic enlargement of a French three franc stamp that was issued in 1978 of an arwork by renowned artist Bernard Buffet. The building is l'Institut de France behind the Pont des Arts in Paris (see below). The stamp itself was engraved by Claude Durrens, who was famous in his own right. (Durrens engraved nearly 400 stamps for France and several French-speaking countries. He also engraved two banknotes.)
The image is mounted on a green board. The frame is a mid-century style gold metal and wood frame with glare-proof glass. Hanging wire attached; ready to hang.
Frame size: 14" x 11"
The image is in good condition. The frame is in acceptable condition appropriate to its age and is suitable for display.
If piece is listed you can be sure that it is still available for sale.
When arranged in advance, available in Santa Rosa on weekends.
ABOUT BERNARD BUFFET (1928 - 1999)
Born in Paris, Bernard Buffet was a painter, lithographer, and etcher who studied at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts and gained early critical acclaim and fortune through his prolific output – he painted more than 8,000 works in his lifetime – and immediately recognizable stylistic manner. Active during a time when abstraction was the predominant artistic style, Buffet defended representational art and was an active member of the anti-abstraction group L’homme Témoin (The Witness-Man).
Featuring portraiture, townscapes, still lifes, and historical and religious subjects, Buffet’s oeuvre is primarily graphic, with spiky, angular and elongated forms rendered in a somber color palette. This stylistic mode gives his work an austere and melancholic tone that has been interpreted as a representation of the emotional state of the post-war generation. Buffet has had dozens of international exhibitions and was awarded a number of prestigious honors, including being made an Officer of the Légion d’Honneur in 1973 and being inducted into the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1974. Unfortunately, the end of his life was marked by a prolonged battle with Parkinson’s disease, which resulted in the artist committing suicide at the age of 71 on 4 October 1999.
The work of Buffet has remained consistently popular, and his paintings have come to be housed in some of the most notable museums around the world, including the Tate Modern, London, Museum of Modern Art, New York, and a dedicated collection at the Bernard Buffet Museum in Japan.
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ABOUT L'INSTITUT DE FRANCE AND THE PONT DES ARTS
"The Institut de France is a French learned society, grouping five académies, including the Académie Française. It was established in 1795 at the direction of the National Convention. Located on the Quai de Conti in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, the institute manages approximately 1,000 foundations as well as museums and châteaux open for visit. The Pont des Arts or Passerelle des Arts is a pedestrian bridge in Paris which crosses the River Seine. It links the Institut de France and the central square (cour carrée) of the Palais du Louvre. Between 1802 and 1804, under the government of Napoleon Bonaparte, a nine-arch metallic bridge for pedestrians was constructed at the location of the present-day Pont des Arts: this was the first metal bridge in Paris. The present bridge was built between 1981 and 1984 'identically' according to the plans of Louis Arretche."