Paris, surfeited with aging masters, has taken a 22-year-old painter to its bosom. He is a shadowy figure, shy, ascetic and wire-thin, named Bernard Buffet. Two years ago Buffet’s first show won ...

It was a space surfeited with design flourishes, where not a single wall or surface has been left to breathe. There was an element missing in it, a fundamental physical attribute: let’s call it ...