Sculptures
There are few sculptures in Bernard Buffet's body of work. The artist's first sculptures, made of metal and papier-mâché for the exhibition 'Le Muséum de Bernard Buffet' (1964), depicted impressively large insects. These sculptures were later destroyed by the artist.
In 1975, Bernard Buffet created four large-scale bronze sculptures: two butterflies, a scarab beetle, and a coleopteran. These four statues are now the only remaining examples of his work in sculpture, a medium he later abandoned. One butterfly and the scarab are displayed in the gardens of the Bernard Buffet Museum in Japan, while the second butterfly and the coleopteran are in the Annabel and Bernard Buffet Garden, in the heart of the village of Tourtour in the Var, where the couple lived between 1986 and 1999.
Forecourt of the Bernard Buffet Museum in Japan (approximate scale).
A butterfly sculpture by Bernard Buffet in Tourtour, Var (approximate scale).
Bernard Buffet’s studio in the 1960s (approximate scale).
Bernard Buffet in front of one of his sculptures (approximate scale).
Bernard Buffet’s studio in the 1960s (approximate scale).
