POSTER FOR THE EXHIBITION "FLEURS" W GALERIE MAURICE GARNIER, Paris 2 II - 27 IV 1979, with a dedication to Nela Rubinstein
handwritten signature in marker pen p.r.: Pou[r] Nela | en souvenir | Bernard Buffet | 1979, m.d. printed signature of the maker of the print: Mourlot imp Paris, in the top corner sign of the publisher: © M. GARNIER 1979
Exhibition poster of Bernard Buffet (1928-1999), famous French painter, printmaker and poster artist, advertising his exhibition at the Maurice Garnier Gallery in Paris in 1979, with a dedication to Nela Rubinstein (they were friends), The artist was, among other things, a member of the jury of the Cannes International Film Festival, where the Rubinsteins frequented.
Wojciech Grochowalski, chairman of the board of the Arthur Rubinstein International Music Foundation and director of the Rubinstein Piano Festival
♣ a fee will be added to the auctioned price, in addition to other costs, based on the right of the artist and his heirs to receive remuneration in accordance with the Act of February 4, 1994 - on Copyright and Related Rights (droit de suite)
Bernard Buffet 's debut years (circa 1948-1955), were both the most interesting and prolific in his career. The artist represents the figurative variety of painterly existentialism. After an exhibition in New York in 1950, he quickly gained notoriety and a reputation as a spokesman for that part of his generation which was not satisfied with Tasist abstraction, incapable, according to many, of bearing the weight of recent wartime experiences. Buffet's works, whether paintings, drawings and prints, are based on a strong, sometimes brutally guided line, betraying a certain affinity with gestural painting. Their color scheme, unless they are in black and white, is based on dark and cold shades of blue, steel gray, black, sometimes brightened by dirty whites.
