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Bernard BUFFET 1928-1999
Les Iris (Irises), 1955
Oil on canvas
100 x 81 cm – 39.37 x 31.88 in.
With frame:
126 x 107 cm – 49.60 x 42.12 in.
With frame:
126 x 107 cm – 49.60 x 42.12 in.
SIgned and dated center left
Further images
In 'Les Iris' (Irises), Buffet asserted his signature: taut black lines, angular forms, and a restrained palette.... The bouquet, set in a narrow vase, stands out against a striated background...
In "Les Iris" (Irises), Buffet asserted his signature: taut black lines, angular forms, and a restrained palette....
The bouquet, set in a narrow vase, stands out against a striated background that heightens the composition’s dramatic tension.
Stripped of any floral seduction, the still life becomes an austere, almost ascetic motif in which line dominates and structures the space.
This work, characteristic of Buffet’s most assured period, revealed his ability to transform a traditional subject into an icon of postwar figurative painting.
