Sale: 548 / Contemporary Art Day Sale, Dec. 08. 2023 in Munich button next Lot 118

 

118
Bernard Buffet
Interieur, 1956.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 45,200
Sold:
€ 41,910 / $ 47,358

(incl. surcharge)
Interieur. 1956.
Oil on canvas.
Lower right signed and dated. Inscribed "R14" on teh reverse, presumably by a hand other than that of the artist. 130 x 97 cm (51.1 x 38.1 in). [EH].

• Prime example of an interior from Bernard Buffet's early work.
• In 1955, the magazine "Connaissance des Arts" named Bernard Buffet, only 27 years old, the greatest French painter of the younger generation.
• His paintings vividly convey the world of thought of the Parisian existentialists.
• The Musée Bernard Buffet opened in Shizouoka, Japan, in 1973.
• Works by Bernard Buffet are at, among others, the Sammlung Im Obersteg at the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, and the Tate Gallery in London
.

The work will be included into the forthcoming volume II of the catalogue raisonné of Bernard Buffet's paintings.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Northern Germany.




118
Bernard Buffet
Interieur, 1956.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 45,200
Sold:
€ 41,910 / $ 47,358

(incl. surcharge)

 


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