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The XXth Century
BIOGRAPHY
Bernard BUFFET (1928-1999)
Bernard Buffet is recognised as a master in his art, and his paintings are collected in the most famous museums around the world. The Surugadaira Museum (Japan) is specially dedicated to his works and displays around 1,000 of his works. His paintings are strong and breathtakingly unforgettable. Bernard Buffet’s style can be recognised among others by a network of “dry” straight lines grey faces, wrinkled foreheads, scarce straight hair, tensed hands. His characters seemed crucified.
MUSEUM : Surugadaira (mus. Bernard Buffet), Clermont-Ferrand, Cluny, Marseille (mus. Cantini), Paris (mus. d’Art Moderne), Rome (mus. du Vatican), Toronto, Troyes, Villeneuve d’Asq, Genève, Lille.
Réf. 6020
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated on the top
Certificate of Maurice Garnier : May, 9th 1968
DIMENSIONS :
– 65,5 x 45 cm (95 x 75 cm cadre inclus)
– 25 3/4 x 18 1/2 in. (37 3/8 x 29 1/2 framed)
PROVENANCE :
– Exhibition “La Corrida”, Galerie Maurice Garnier, Paris, 1967
LITERATURE :
– Two similar portraits from the same series are reproduced in Yann LE PICHON’s “Bernard BUFFET 1961-1982”, pages 136-137
This painting is referenced 20U in Galerie Maurice Garnier’s archives
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