69 - Bernard Buffet, “Jeux des Dames”, signed colour lithograph from 1970, framed

Bernard Buffet, “Jeux des Dames”, signed colour lithograph from 1970, framed Bernard Buffet, 1928 Paris - 1999 Tourtour, French graphic artist and Expressionist painter; shown here: From Buffet’s famous series of ten, “Jeux de Dames”, this colour lithograph depicts two young female nudes putting on stockings and high heels whilst reclining on a chaise longue; colour lithograph, 75 x 54 cm, numbered 195/250, signed on the right; the lithographs were published by the renowned publisher André Sauret in Monte Carlo and printed at the famous Mourlot workshop in Paris. In a contemporary aluminium frame About the artist: Bernard Buffet studied art history at the Lycée Carnot and, from 1943 to 1945, at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. There, he joined forces with other painters to form the group ‘L’homme-témoin’ and was part of the artistic avant-garde scene. In the late 1940s, the painters Maurice Utrillo and Georges Rouault introduced their friend Buffet to the art dealer Maurice Girandin, who signed him up. In the years that followed, Buffet developed a distinctive and realistic style. He was celebrated as a painter of existentialism, was at times regarded as the legitimate successor to Pablo Picasso, and won prizes on a par with Picasso’s.