Throughout his life, Bernard Buffet revisited the places and themes of his childhood: his beloved Montmartre, from the Place Pigalle, where he was born in 1928, to the Batignolles district, where he grew up, and his house at 20 Rue Cortot, in which he lived for ten years; the circus, which he tackled a series of works between 1955 and the 1990s, with the parades of the Cirque Me?drano; and the interiors and still lifes. The painter's main personal interests and the recurrent themes in his work provide the framework for the original itinerary of the exhibition devoted to this 'polymorphic' and multifaceted genius. It focuses, in particular, on his fusional connection with the world of literature and the theatre, his commitment and hard work in the Lacourie?re and Fre?laut atelier in Montmartre, his love for Annabel, his wife and muse, and the solitary walks that inspired his landscapes. --Publisher description.