Bernard Buffet
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Bernard Buffet was a French painter, printmaker, and illustrator. An extremely prolific artist, he produced a varied and extensive body of work. His style was exclusively figurative and is often class
Self Portrait (1954), Tate Modern
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Still Life with Cheese and Pitcher (1949) - Bernard Buffet at Centre Pompidou
Charles de Gaulle by Buffet
Charles de Gaulle
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Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany and Vichy France in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of t
Bernard Buffet
…first retrospective of his work was held at the Galerie Charpentier, which generated over 100,000 visitors. He was commissioned to make the portrait of Charles de Gaulle for the 1958 Time Man of the Year magazine cover. By the end of the 1950s, both the public and the art world had turned against Buffet. His lavish…
De Gaulle in uniform, 1942
Charles de Gaulle, sometime in the 1900s
De Gaulle as a cadet in Saint-Cyr, 1910
A plaque in Dinant commemorating the place where Charles de Gaulle, then an infantry lieutenant, was wounded in 1914