Interieur. 1956.
Oil on canvas.
Lower right signed and dated. Inscribed "R14" on teh reverse, presumably by a hand other than that of the artist. 130 x 97 cm (51.1 x 38.1 in). [EH].

• Prime example of an interior from Bernard Buffet's early work.
• In 1955, the magazine "Connaissance des Arts" named Bernard Buffet, only 27 years old, the greatest French painter of the younger generation.
• His paintings vividly convey the world of thought of the Parisian existentialists.
• The Musée Bernard Buffet opened in Shizouoka, Japan, in 1973.
• Works by Bernard Buffet are at, among others, the Sammlung Im Obersteg at the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, and the Tate Gallery in London.

The work will be included into the forthcoming volume II of the catalogue raisonné of Bernard Buffet's paintings.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Northern Germany.