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1955 Bernard Buffet Tete de Clown Print Framed #1930777

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1955 Bernard Buffet Tete de Clown Print Framed #1930777
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***REASONABLE BEST-OFFERS CONSIDERED PRE-AUCTION OR DIRECT PURCHASE - ITEMS TO BE SOLD VIA THIS VENUE ONLY (PLEASE DO NOT REQUEST OFF-VENUE SALE)! Item & Subject-Matter: Vintage Mid-Century Modern Eames-era Bernard Buffet Abstract Clown (? Masonite) Print textured with the appearance of ?brush strokes? entitled ?Clown? (aka ?Tete de Clown? and ?Head of the Clown?)
***Attractively retro-framed with a Brass Nameplate that reads ?Clown - Buffet?
Artist: Bernard Buffet (French - 1928-1999); Lived/Active France; Known for Painter
***EXCERPTED RESEARCH INFO: ?Bernard Buffet was born in Paris, France on July 10, 1928. He entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1944 but worked mostly in solitude. He obtained an exhibition at the Gal. des Impressions d'Art in 1947 but attracted no attention. About that time he found his individual style and in 1948 won the Prix de la Critique jointly with Bernard Lorjou. After that he enjoyed the greatest acclaim of the younger French painters, becoming the most commercially successful French painter alive. He developed a highly mannered style immediately recognizable as his own. In sharp and spikey linear forms and with dismal greys and neutral tones he depicted emaciated figures and distorted still-lifes which seemed to express the existential and spiritual solitude of the postwar generation. Later, overwhelmed by commissions and success, his work became more stylized and decorative, losing in some measure its initial impact. He also did graphic work and ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Exceptional</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:ca 1950s-1970s</td></tr>

<tr><td>Maker:Artist - Bernard Buffet</td></tr>




<tr><td>Title:1955 Bernard Buffet Tete de Clown Print Framed</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:Glendale, Arizona</td></tr>
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