Lot 96
  • 96

Bernard Buffet

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Bernard Buffet
  • Environs de la Rochepot, Bourgogne
  • Signed Bernard Buffet (upper center) and dated 1973 (upper right); titled and inscribed with a chalice (on the reverse)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 35 1/4 by 51 3/8 in.
  • 89.5 by 130.5 cm.
  • Painted in 1973.

Provenance

Maurice Garnier, Paris
Galerie Martal, Montreal
Private collection, Palm Beach (acquired from the above in August 1980)
Thence by descent

Condition

The canvas is unlined. The picture surface is in generally good condition. Under UV: no apparent signs of inpainting.
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