Word: buffet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insane, he is convinced that "art has much to do with madness." ¶ Serge Poliakoff, a gypsy who paints geometric designs and says his "ambition is to speak the truth ... A red circle is not the sun. It is a red circle." ¶ Bernard Buffet, who once used his mother's torn sheets as canvases, has had the most spectacular success, now owns a chateau and a Rolls, says "wealth aids my creative spirit; poverty does not necessarily help genius." A painter of contorted, distorted, sad human beings, Buffet is as disillusioned and almost as popular in France...
...trip to California. The international flavor of the competition was served when England's John Piper took third prize and $750 for an impressionistic backyard-scape called Nailsworth, Gloucestershire. Honorable mentions (plus $250 each) went to Italy's Gustavo Foppiani, France's Bernard Lorjou and Bernard Buffet, Brazil's Candido Portinari, and Loren MacIver, Walter Stuempfig and Robert Vickrey of the U.S. "This," said Jurist Goodrich, "is the best competition Hallmark has held...
...store. All Dallas was swept into the act. For Neiman-Marcus' "French Fortnight," the art museum displayed 32 Toulouse-Lautrecs, and the local Lions, Kiwanians and Y.M.C.A. swooped down on visiting French dignitaries for a round of lunches and speeches. France's most sought-after artist, Bernard Buffet (TIME, Feb. 27, 1956), won the city by sporting a giant Stetson; Authors Pierre Daninos (The Notebooks of Major Thompson) and Louise de Vilmorin were lionized at dinner parties...
Riffling through his sharply focused snapshot memories of some 80 greats and near greats, M.G.M. comes down to the finish line with a recent interview with Paris' rocketing young Bernard Buffet, who in the last decade has shot from abject poverty to Rolls-Royce status. Such luck was rare in the old days, M.G.M. recalls. Looking back over the past, he says: "What they call la belle epoque was the most hostile and hardest time that ever existed. They are always talking of the good old days. But in those days painters were starving. Nowadays a painter with...
Planned festivities began yesterday with an informal get-together at the Hasty Pudding, followed by an informal reception and cocktail party for President and Mrs. Pusey at Harkness Commons. The reception, held outdoors in the Harkness courtyard, was followed by buffet supper at the Graduate Center...