About

Bernard Buffet was born in Paris in 1928. At the age of fifteen, he entered the Fine Arts school and followed Narbonne’s lessons who encouraged him to find himself.
Therefore, he left school and devoted himself to his art, at his father's house. In 1946, he exhibited his first canvas, a self-portrait, at the Salon des moins de 30 ans. One year later, he was introduced at the Salon des Indépendants and then Pierre Descargues organized his first personal exhibition.
The National Museum of Modern Art bought him a canvas, Nature morte au poulet. He didn’t win the young painting award at the …