Sale: 605 / Day Sale, June 13. 2026 in Munich → Lot 126000037
Raumbeispiel
126000037
Bernard Buffet
Modèle dans l´atelier, 1949.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 60,000 - 80,000
$ 69,000 - 92,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
126000037
Bernard Buffet
Modèle dans l´atelier, 1949.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 60,000 - 80,000
$ 69,000 - 92,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Bernard Buffet
1928 - 1999
Modèle dans l´atelier. 1949.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the upper right. 94.2 x 61 cm (37 x 24 in).
[AR].
• From his radical early years - provocative, ascetic, strictly vertical, unmistakable.
• With his uncompromising linear aesthetics, Bernard Buffet developed one of the most influential styles in European Post-War art.
• One year earlier, his work was awarded the Prix de la Critique in 1948.
• His paintings are a powerful reflection of the intellectual world of the Parisian existentialists.
• The artist’s works are held in renowned museum collections, including the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Tate Gallery in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Accompanied by a certificate issued by Céline Lévy of Galerie Maurice Garnier/Fonds de Dotation Bernard Buffet, Paris, dated November 6, 2021.
PROVENANCE: Kleemann Galleries, New York (with a label on reverse).
Private collection (acquired from the above).
Private collection (inherited from the above, until 2017, Sotheby’s New York).
Private collection, Northern Germany.
LITERATURE: Fonds de Dotation Bernard Buffet, Bernard Buffet. Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. 1: 1941-1953, Paris 2019, p.149 (illustrated).
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Sotheby’s, New York, Impressionist & Modern Art, June 8, 2017, lot 66.
1928 - 1999
Modèle dans l´atelier. 1949.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the upper right. 94.2 x 61 cm (37 x 24 in).
[AR].
• From his radical early years - provocative, ascetic, strictly vertical, unmistakable.
• With his uncompromising linear aesthetics, Bernard Buffet developed one of the most influential styles in European Post-War art.
• One year earlier, his work was awarded the Prix de la Critique in 1948.
• His paintings are a powerful reflection of the intellectual world of the Parisian existentialists.
• The artist’s works are held in renowned museum collections, including the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Tate Gallery in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Accompanied by a certificate issued by Céline Lévy of Galerie Maurice Garnier/Fonds de Dotation Bernard Buffet, Paris, dated November 6, 2021.
PROVENANCE: Kleemann Galleries, New York (with a label on reverse).
Private collection (acquired from the above).
Private collection (inherited from the above, until 2017, Sotheby’s New York).
Private collection, Northern Germany.
LITERATURE: Fonds de Dotation Bernard Buffet, Bernard Buffet. Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. 1: 1941-1953, Paris 2019, p.149 (illustrated).
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Sotheby’s, New York, Impressionist & Modern Art, June 8, 2017, lot 66.
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