{"product_id":"original-bernard-buffet-poster-1954-la-passion-du-christ","title":"Original Bernard Buffet Poster 1954 \"La Passion Du Christ\"","description":"\u003ctable style=\"width: 100%; height: 156.75px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 11.8075%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 85.4386%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003eBernard Buffet\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 11.8075%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 85.4386%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e1954\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 39.1875px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 11.8075%; height: 39.1875px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExhibition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 85.4386%; height: 39.1875px;\"\u003eLa Passion du Christ — Galerie Henri Creuzevault, 159 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 11.8075%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 85.4386%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e49 × 66 cm (19.3 × 26 in)\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 11.8075%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eType\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 85.4386%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003eOriginal vintage exhibition poster\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 11.8075%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBacking\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 85.4386%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003eFreshly linen backed\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 11.8075%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 85.4386%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003eA — Good condition, see different pictures\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is an original exhibition poster created in 1954 for Bernard Buffet's \u003cem\u003eLa Passion du Christ\u003c\/em\u003e — one of the most significant and haunting bodies of work produced by any French artist in the post-war decade, and the series that established his annual thematic exhibition as one of the defining rituals of the Paris art calendar. The poster announces the presentation at the Galerie Henri Creuzevault, 159 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, of Buffet's 21 drypoint etchings illustrating the Passion of Christ, published the same year by Henri Creuzevault with texts compiled from Biblical passages by the Greek scholar Charles Astruc, and printed by the legendary atelier Lacourière et Frélaut — the finest intaglio printers in Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBernard Buffet\u003c\/strong\u003e (1928–1999), born in Paris and trained at the École des Beaux-Arts, was the most celebrated French painter of his generation — a prodigious talent who had won the Prix de la Critique at just twenty years old and who, in 1955, was voted by \u003cem\u003eConnaissance des Arts\u003c\/em\u003e as one of the ten greatest painters of the post-war era. His style was unmistakable: a network of dry, angular lines; elongated, angular figures that seemed always on the edge of collapse; faces drained of colour but filled with feeling; backgrounds of existentialist emptiness. One French critic described him as \"a primitive Christian witnessing modern misery\" — and the phrase is exactly right for the \u003cem\u003ePassion du Christ\u003c\/em\u003e series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first \u003cem\u003ePassion du Christ\u003c\/em\u003e exhibition, held in February 1952, had inaugurated Buffet's principle of an annual solo show built around a single chosen theme — a principle he maintained with extraordinary discipline for the rest of his career. The 1954 version, presented alongside the published portfolio of drypoints, brought the subject to its fullest realisation: Christ's suffering rendered not in the language of traditional religious iconography but in the spare, angular, existentialist vocabulary of a painter shaped by the war, the Occupation, and the long shadow they cast over everything that came after. In the background of one of the etchings, railway tracks — an unmistakable evocation of the deportations — run behind the deposition of the body from the cross. It is a work of devastating moral seriousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poster has been freshly linen backed — the gold standard of vintage poster conservation — ensuring the piece is stable, flat, and ready for framing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA deeply charged document — Buffet at his most morally serious, for the series that made him the conscience of post-war French painting.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"nbmposter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45864762376301,"sku":null,"price":1500.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0017\/3811\/3082\/files\/buffetgoat.png?v=1789559528","url":"https:\/\/www.nbmposter.com\/products\/original-bernard-buffet-poster-1954-la-passion-du-christ","provider":"nbmposter","version":"1.0","type":"link"}