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Bernard Buffet

1928 - 1999

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Bernard Buffet (French: [byfɛ]; 10 July 1928 – 4 October 1999) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. An extremely prolific artist, he produced a varied and extensive body of work. His style was exclusively figurative and is often classified as Expressionist or "miserabilist". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernard Buffet has received more than 357,872 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Bernard Buffet is the 420th most popular painter (up from 508th in 2019), the 1,307th most popular biography from France (up from 1,565th in 2019) and the 90th most popular French Painter.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Bernard Buffet ranks 420 out of 2,023. Before him are Lucian Freud, Cristofano Allori, Karel Appel, Isaac Levitan, Jan Matsys, and Pieter Lastman. After him are Marianne von Werefkin, Adam Elsheimer, Theophanes the Greek, Enrique Simonet, Lovis Corinth, and Anna Maria van Schurman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Bernard Buffet ranks 74. Before him are Osamu Shimomura, Erik Bruhn, Robert Badinter, Zhu Rongji, Adam West, and Gaston Thorn. After him are Capucine, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, Pierre Mauroy, Ion Mihai Pacepa, and Lina Wertmüller. Among people deceased in 1999, Bernard Buffet ranks 38. Before him are Mary Ainsworth, Fred Trump, Hélder Câmara, Nathalie Sarraute, Gerhard Herzberg, and John F. Kennedy Jr.. After him are Amintore Fanfani, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Sarah Knauss, Joe D'Amato, Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, and Hermine Braunsteiner.

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In France

Among people born in France, Bernard Buffet ranks 1,307 out of 6,770. Before him are Léon Bloy (1846), Anne L'Huillier (1958), Jane Frances de Chantal (1572), Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766), Jean-Lambert Tallien (1767), and Antoine François Prévost (1697). After him are Petrus Ramus (1515), Capucine (1928), Maria Schneider (1952), Charles François de Cisternay du Fay (1698), François Pinault (1936), and Antoine, Duke of Montpensier (1824).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Bernard Buffet ranks 90. Before him are Armand Guillaumin (1841), François Clouet (1510), Jules Chéret (1836), André Masson (1896), Eva Gonzalès (1849), and Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827). After him are Yves Tanguy (1900), Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754), Françoise Gilot (1921), Louise Moillon (1610), Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (1774), and Ernest Meissonier (1815).

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