I am not trying, says Guy Buffet, "to convey a message in my work. Instead, each painting is an invitation to a world where my dreams and fantasies become reality." Since he sold his first watercolor at the age of thirteen to an American tourist who was visiting the Buffet family restaurant in Paris, that reality has included, among other things, landscapes of Polynesia, dreamscapes of Hawaii, several battalions of quirky French culinary workers, historical scenes of the French Revolution, and a few dour Scotsmen on wind-blasted moors unaccountably trying to play golf. His sublime sense of the burlesque is...
