Bernard Buffet: The Invention of the Modern Mega-Artist

by Nicholas Foulkes

Book Overview

It is said that asphyxiation brings on a state of hallucinatory intoxication...in which case the 71 year old artist who lay in his sprawling Provencal villa died happy. In the early afternoon of Monday 4 October 1999, wracked with Parkinson's, and unable to paint because of a fall in which he had broken his wrist, Bernard Buffet calmly placed a plastic bag over his head, taped it tight around his neck and patiently waited the few minutes it took for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099594226
• ISBN13: 9780099594222
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Arrow
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.0" x 7.6"