BERNARD BUFFET (1928-1999)

Lot 646
13.05.2023 19:30UTC -05:00
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$ 200 000
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ID 950026
Lot 646 | BERNARD BUFFET (1928-1999)
Estimate value
$ 200 000 – 300 000
BERNARD BUFFET (1928-1999)

Autoportrait

signed and dated ’Bernard Buffet 49’ (upper right); signed again and inscribed ‘Bernard Buffet A GANY’ (on the reverse)

oil and charcoal on canvas

48 3/4 x 19 3/8 in. (123.9 x 49.1 cm.)

Painted in 1949





Provenance

Gany and Emmanuel David, Paris (gift from the artist, circa 1949).

Galerie Ferrero, Geneva.

Nukaga Gallery, Tokyo.

Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 2013.



Literature

L'Express, no. 295, 15 February 1957, p. 16.

P. Bergé, Bernard Buffet, Geneva, 1958, no. 64 (illustrated).

A.A. Avila, Bernard Buffet, Paris, 1989, p. 170, no. 234.

P. Basset, Les insoumis de l'art moderne: La jeune peinture, Paris, 2009, p. 35.

Galerie Maurice Garnier, ed., Bernard Buffet: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1941-1953, Paris, 2019, vol. 1, p. 155 (illustrated).



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