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Artist: Bernard Buffet (French, 1928-1999)
French Expressionist painter. Born 1928, Paris, France, and committed suicide in 1999 after suffering from Parkinson’s disease. He 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).