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Bernard Buffet (1928 - 1999), French painter, was highly acclaimed by the age of twenty, with a distinctive sketchy style. Buffet's work had a consistent somber mood that accurately mirrored the atmosphere of the post-war period.
Buffet worked unceasingly throughout his life, producing religious pieces, landscapes, portraits and still-lifes with at least one major exhibition each year of his life until he committed suicide in 1999.
French painters with whom he studied at the "Ecole nationale Supérieure des Beaux arts" (National school of Fine Art) and kept links during his life are Maurice Boitel and Louis Vuillermoz. One of his students was the father of Linear Expressionism, Jean Claude Gaugy[1]