Lot 118
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118
Bernard Buffet
Vanité, 1953.
Olio su tela
Stima:
€ 30,000 / $ 31,500 Risultato:
€ 38,100 / $ 40,005 ( commissione inclusa)
Vanité. 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: Fonds du Dotation Bernard Buffet, Bernard Buffet. Catalogue raisonné de l'Œuvre peint. 1941-1953, vol. I, Paris 2019, p. 360 (illu.).
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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: Fonds du Dotation Bernard Buffet, Bernard Buffet. Catalogue raisonné de l'Œuvre peint. 1941-1953, vol. I, Paris 2019, p. 360 (illu.).
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Christie's, New York, auction 1901, November 7, 2007, lot 437.
118
Bernard Buffet
Vanité, 1953.
Olio su tela
Stima:
€ 30,000 / $ 31,500 Risultato:
€ 38,100 / $ 40,005 ( commissione inclusa)