Details
Bernard Buffet (1928-1999)
Cinq jacinthes dans un plat
signé et daté 'Bernard Buffet 52' (en haut à droite)
huile sur toile
60.2 x 73 cm.
Peint en 1952
signed and dated 'Bernard Buffet 52' (upper right)
oil on canvas
23 5/8 x 28 ¾ in.
Painted in 1952
Provenance
Galerie Drouant-David, Paris (avant 1958).
Galerie Georges Moos, Genève (avant 1986).
Collection particulière, Suisse.
Puis par descendance au propriétaire actuel.
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Further details
«Ce n’est pas gai la peinture. D’ailleurs ce n’est pas fait pour faire rire».
Bernard Buffet, cité in Y. le Pichon, Bernard Buffet, Paris 1986, vol. I, p. 11.
“Painting is not happy. In truth it is not created in order to make you laugh".
Bernard Buffet, quoted in Y. le Pichon, Bernard Buffet, Paris 1986, vol. I, p. 11.