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Love Spectrum 2
Grégoire Devin
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 4.6 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.8 inch
€9,313
L'Enfer de Dante / Lucifer
Bernard Buffet
Print - 76 x 56.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 29.9 x 22.2 x 0.1 inch
€900
L'Enfer de Dante / Virgile
Bernard Buffet
Print - 76 x 56.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 29.9 x 22.2 x 0.1 inch
€900
Love Spectrum I
Grégoire Devin
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 4.6 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.8 inch
€9,313
L'Enfer de Dante / Figure Éclatée
Bernard Buffet
Print - 76 x 56.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 29.9 x 22.2 x 0.1 inch
€900
Out of this World
David Paul Kay
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1 inch
€14,000
L'Enfer de Dante / Dante
Bernard Buffet
Print - 76 x 56.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 29.9 x 22.2 x 0.1 inch
€900
L'Enfer de Dante / Angélo
Bernard Buffet
Print - 76 x 56.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 29.9 x 22.2 x 0.1 inch
€900
L'Enfer de Dante / Damné ricanant
Bernard Buffet
Print - 76 x 56.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 29.9 x 22.2 x 0.1 inch
€900
L'Enfer de Dante / Deux Damnés
Bernard Buffet
Print - 76 x 56.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 29.9 x 22.2 x 0.1 inch
€900 €810
Behind the mask
Grégoire Devin
Painting - 213.4 x 213.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 84 x 84 x 2 inch
€19,791
Or Kadmon-Bosco Zafferano 4/10
Tobia Ravà
Print - 55 x 70 x 3 cm Print - 21.7 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
€1,830
Les gardiens
Evelyne Postic
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 40 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 15.7 inch
€1,650
Untitled 6
David Paul Kay
Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 16 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.3 x 6.3 x 0 inch
€600
Untitled 5
David Paul Kay
Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 16 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.3 x 6.3 x 0 inch
€600
Untitled 4
David Paul Kay
Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 16 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.3 x 6.3 x 0 inch
€600
Untitled 3
David Paul Kay
Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 16 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.3 x 6.3 x 0 inch
€600
Untitled 2
David Paul Kay
Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 16 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.3 x 6.3 x 0 inch
€600
Everything Under The Sky (The Saved)
Faile
Print - 48 x 32 x 0.05 cm Print - 18.9 x 12.6 x 0 inch
€1,100
Le clocher de Sauzon
Bernard Buffet
Print - 56.5 x 76.5 x 0.2 cm Print - 22.2 x 30.1 x 0.1 inch
€2,900 €2,610
Carafe, coupe de fruits et assiette
Bernard Buffet
Print - 58.8 x 73 x 0.2 cm Print - 23.1 x 28.7 x 0.1 inch
€1,638
De la griffe et de l’ether 02
Benoît Singy
Painting - 213 x 69 cm Painting - 83.9 x 27.2 inch
€1,600
Bastide en Provence
Bernard Buffet
Painting - 50 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
€98,000
Dans la Montagne - Charles Sorlier
Bernard Buffet
Print - 55 x 72 x 1 cm Print - 21.7 x 28.3 x 0.4 inch
€1,900
De la griffe et de l’ether 03
Benoît Singy
Painting - 213 x 69 cm Painting - 83.9 x 27.2 inch
€1,600
Gammes Matinales Avril 2023 - 02
Benoît Singy
Painting - 64 x 54 cm Painting - 25.2 x 21.3 inch
€900
Gammes matinales avril 2023 - 10
Benoît Singy
Painting - 99 x 54 cm Painting - 39 x 21.3 inch
€1,000
Gammes matinales Avril 2023 - 09
Benoît Singy
Painting - 84 x 54 cm Painting - 33.1 x 21.3 inch
€1,000
Gammes Matinales Avril 2023 - 08
Benoît Singy
Painting - 101 x 54 cm Painting - 39.8 x 21.3 inch
€1,000
Gammes Matinales Avril 2023 - 07
Benoît Singy
Painting - 99 x 54 cm Painting - 39 x 21.3 inch
€1,000
Gammes Matinales Avril 2023 - 06
Benoît Singy
Painting - 68 x 54 cm Painting - 26.8 x 21.3 inch
€900
Gammes Matinales Avril 2023 - 05
Benoît Singy
Painting - 82 x 54 cm Painting - 32.3 x 21.3 inch
€1,000
Gammes Matinales Avril 2023 - 04
Benoît Singy
Painting - 79 x 54 cm Painting - 31.1 x 21.3 inch
€1,000
Gammes Matinales Avril 2023 - 03
Benoît Singy
Painting - 78 x 54 cm Painting - 30.7 x 21.3 inch
€1,000
Gammes Matinales Avril 2023 - 01
Benoît Singy
Painting - 87 x 54 cm Painting - 34.3 x 21.3 inch
€1,000
Ghostly Calligraphies
Though calligraphy is the art of writing, that art is measured by the interpretation of the beholder. Using the tools of a writer, whether that be the brush, ink, paint or pen the artist can create a connection between symbol and gesture. Unsurprisingly, calligraphy finds a home in the Abstract Expressionism movement that followed the end of World War II. The likes of Jasper Johns, Mark Rothko, Helen Frankenthaler and Franz Kline sought to create deeper connections with the self and express what was reserved for the interior in a much more honest way. But that interior may be filled with an interest in the fantastic, plagued by grief or consumed by miserabilism. Though Kline is the artist from the movement of Abstract Expressionism most associated with the use of calligraphy, Bernard Buffet, featured here on Artsper, also began to convey the personality of his interior by 1947 – after war had ended. The Parisian-born Buffet tried to save money and used very little paint on his canvases. Therefore there was little variety in color, and mostly grey, black and green tones are seen in his portraits. The grey faces, wrinkled foreheads, thinning hair and contracted hands took on a crucified, ghostly appearance. Whilst the likes of Bruno Mallart modernizes his version of ghostly calligraphies by merging it with digital techniques.