BERNARD BUFFET | ARLEQUIN

Auction Closed

June 30, 03:09 AM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a North American Private Collection

BERNARD BUFFET

1928 - 1999

ARLEQUIN

Signed Bernard Buffet and dated 56 (upper right)

Oil on canvas

51¼ by 38 in.

130 by 96.5 cm

Painted in 1956.

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Ida Garnier & Jacques Gasbarian.

Mrs. Gany David, Paris

Private Collection, Europe (and sold: Sotheby's, London, February 6, 2014, lot 207)

Acquired at the above sale

Yann Le Pichon, Bernard Buffet, 1943-1961, Switzerland, 1986, no. 337, illustrated p. 366

New York, Knoedler Gallery, 1956

Catalogue note