10. Two Clowns By Bernard Buffet
On a sunny afternoon in the 1950s, Pablo Picasso was sitting with his children on the terrace of a café in the south of France, when another artist arrived. “Look, there is Bernard Buffet,” said Picasso’s children. They jumped up and asked for the autograph of the young, handsome, awkward man, who was an artist who had made a colossal fortune from his work by the age of 30. But after the artist’s meteoric rise to fame and fortune, Buffet fell victim in the 1960s to a campaign of denigration in his home country, led, among others, by Picasso. The Spanish genius detested Buffet for rivalling his fame, and certainly never forgave him for becoming a cult hero to his children – or maybe after they saw his clowns – they could never sleep again.