Drypoint :
Engraving technique using a thin steel needle to cut the metal plate.
Bernard Buffet :
(1928 - 1999) was a major French expressionist painter and lithograph. His works belong to the collections of the greatest museums in Europe, Americas and Asia :
In France (Musée des Beaux Arts de Nantes, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Centre Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne, Institut culturel Bernard Magrez, Centre national des arts plastiques, Musée d'art Roger-Quilliot);
US (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Carnegie Museum of art, Boca Raton Museum of art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Utah Museum of Fine Art, Eli ans Edythe Broad Art Museum);
Denmark (Randers Kunstmuseum);
Germany (MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Merkel collection & foundation);
Macedonia (Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje); Finland (Tampereen kaupunki - Tampere Art Museum);
Japan (National Museum of Western Art & Matsukata Collection,Ohara Museum of Art, The Bridgestone Museum of art Ishibashi Foundation); UK (Tate Collection); Sweden (The Modern Museum - Moderna Museet); and Taiwan (JuMing Museum)