Bernard Buffet - the 50s - Celebrated in the 1950s as the new Picasso, Bernard Buffet (1928-1999) was also one of the most controversial painters of his time. This book retraces twelve years of the prodigious artist's career. From 1946, when he began exhibiting, to 1958, the year of his first major Paris retrospective. At a time marked by abstraction, Buffet was resolutely figurative. An admirer of Dürer, Rembrandt, David and Courbet, he followed in the great tradition of these masters, while at the same time forging an original, unmistakable language. Sharing his life with Pierre Bergé from 1950 to 1958, the artist tackled all painting genres with prodigious energy, from still life to history, landscape to portrait. Labeled "miserabilist" by some critics, her work sometimes evokes the poetic realism of French cinema in the 1930s and 1940s. But she stands out for her subtle art of color and sovereign mastery of drawing. This is the richness of this singular work that this book invites us to discover and appropriate, through over one hundred reproductions and an exclusive interview with Pierre Bergé. - Citadelles & Mazenod - 2016