Lot 124000666 
124000666
Bernard Buffet
Nature morte avec crane, 1953.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 30,000 - 40,000
$ 32,100 - 42,800
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Nature morte avec crane. 1953.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in upper left. Inscribed “J 16” on the reverse of the canvas. 49.8 x 64.8 cm (19.6 x 25.5 in). [AW].
• Buffet was the star of the French art scene in the 1950s and has a reputation as "painter of existentialism".
• His unmistakable realistic style is based on Rembrandt, Géricault, Courbet and van Gogh.
• Death, hunger and disgust are the basic themes of his gloomy still lifes.
• His works are in renowned international collections like the Kunstmuseum Basel, Tate Gallery, London, the Musée Nacional d'Art Moderne, Paris, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Drouant-David, Paris.
Olbricht Collection, Essen/Berlin (acquired from the above in 2007).
EXHIBITION: Go for it! Olbricht Collection (a sequel), Weserburg, Museum für moderne Kunst, Berlin, May 10, 2008 - November 1, 2009.
Lebenslust & Totentanz. Olbricht Collection, Kunsthalle Krems, July 18 - November 7, 2010.
LITERATURE: Christie's, New York, auction 1901, November 7, 2007, lot 437.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in upper left. Inscribed “J 16” on the reverse of the canvas. 49.8 x 64.8 cm (19.6 x 25.5 in). [AW].
• Buffet was the star of the French art scene in the 1950s and has a reputation as "painter of existentialism".
• His unmistakable realistic style is based on Rembrandt, Géricault, Courbet and van Gogh.
• Death, hunger and disgust are the basic themes of his gloomy still lifes.
• His works are in renowned international collections like the Kunstmuseum Basel, Tate Gallery, London, the Musée Nacional d'Art Moderne, Paris, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Drouant-David, Paris.
Olbricht Collection, Essen/Berlin (acquired from the above in 2007).
EXHIBITION: Go for it! Olbricht Collection (a sequel), Weserburg, Museum für moderne Kunst, Berlin, May 10, 2008 - November 1, 2009.
Lebenslust & Totentanz. Olbricht Collection, Kunsthalle Krems, July 18 - November 7, 2010.
LITERATURE: Christie's, New York, auction 1901, November 7, 2007, lot 437.
124000666
Bernard Buffet
Nature morte avec crane, 1953.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 30,000 - 40,000
$ 32,100 - 42,800
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.