Known for his sketchy, faintly macabre style, Bernard Buffet was a French painter who has been consistently popular since World War II. Bernard Buffet's output was massive, as he painted constantly and would put out several substantial gallery showings each decade. Bernard Buffet prints display his unique gifts for portraits, seascapes, still-lifes, animal studies, religious imagery, and more.

Born in 1928, Bernard Buffet had his first painting shown at age 18 and began attracting attention in the art world in his early 20s. He would hardly pause in his constant production of sketches, paintings, and watercolors for the rest of his life. He was elected into the prestigious French art society, the Academie des Beaux-Arts, and died by his own hand in 1999.

Most of Bernard Buffet's work displays a sketch-like style, with strong lines and muted colors, that borders on cartoonish in some works. In later periods, however, he produced highly detailed artwork on buildings and landscapes. Nearly all his work is distinctively somber, or at most darkly comic. Some of his later portraits display a similarity to the work of underground American comic book artist R. Crumb.

Bernard Buffet prints, lithographs, stamps, and engravings are available for his major works. His work has been used on at least two French postage stamps. His pastel-colored, impressionistic sketch of Le Pont des Arts graced a stamp in 1978. A rare whimsical side of Buffet was on show for a 1991 stamp bearing his painting of a family of penguins meandering along a nondescript road.