Bernard Buffet

Le Jeu, Roulette, Cendrier Jaune, Gauloises

1977

Georges Washington 1827-1910 American Le Voyage - Halte au bord de l'Oued Oil on canvas Signed lower right Canvas: 16 7/8" high x 23 5/8" wide Frame: 29...

Bonnier, 20th Century French "Chez l'Antiquaire", 1933 Oil on canvas, Signed and dated lower right Canvas: 28 3/4" high x 36 1/2" wide Frame: 36 5/8" high x 43 7/8" wide Active...

Georges Lapchine 1885-1951 Russian "La Voile Rouge" Oil on canvas Signed lower left Canvas : 19 5/8" high x 39 3/8" wide Frame: 26 3/4" high x 46 1/2" wide Georges LAPCHINE : Russian painter, born in Moscow in 1885. Died in 1951. Painter of figures, landscapes, post-impressionist. A pupil of Fernand Cormon and Léon Lhermitte...

Albert LYNCH (1851-1936) French "Rêverie" Oil on canvas Signed lower left Canvas: 43 1/4" high x 24 3/4" wide Frame: 49 5/8" high x 30 3/4" wide Albert LYNCH: Born in Lima in 1851, Albert Lynch studied art at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris and in the studios of the figure painters Gabriel Ferrier and Henri Lehmann...

Paul Emile Perboyre 1826-1914 French Calèche au Bois de Boulogne, Circa 1880 Oil on panel Signed lower right Panel: 12 5/8" high x 18 1/8" wide Fame: 19...

Marius Vasselon, 1841-1924 "Bouquet de Fleurs dans un Vase " Oil on canvas, Signed lower left Canvas: 29 1/2" high x 23 5/8" wide Frame: 36 1/4" high x 29 7/8" wide

The painting is an oil on canvas, measuring 48" x 36". The painting is multilayered to show skin texture, and source of light. The painting shows a young woman fixing her shawl, an a...

The painting is an oil on canvas, measuring 45" x 33". There is a lot of texture on this painting created by cigarette butts and ash mixed with oil paint, smeared on the canvas to highlight the hair. The painting shows a character inspired by Bollywood, in the market, reflecting on all the patterns and designs she sees in a South Asian jewelry...

This painting is an oil on canvas measuring 36" x 29". Portrait was stylized on artist owned images. Framing is available based on buyers preference. The image depicts a middle aged...

Painting is an oil on canvas, measuring 30" x 22". There is a lot of texture on this painting built up entirely of scraped and dried oil paint. This image is a dark one, showing a wo...

The painting is about a woman stuck still in time, statuesque and hard looking. The are many layers of strokes to build on the hardness of the figure...

A sawah landscape, Sumatra Signed and dated 'Sonnega '54' (lower right), and annotated 'Voor Jan de Bas 1-1-1970 / R de Bas' (on the reverse) oil on canvas, 50,5x60,5 cm Provenance: - Collection Pieter de Bas (1909-1979) Mr de Bas was head of the MULO school and acting head of the HBS school in Medan. Thence by descent to the present owner. Exhibited: - Hotel de Boer, Medan 1954, where acquired by the first owner. The light I observed everywhere was of a special quality, fluorescent blue, shone from nowhere but radiated from every point, oddly with great depth and intensity. The light in an entirely different dimension came from nowhere and went nowhere shimmering with the glow of a bright blue jewel. The most important thing I discovered was of being omnipresent and able to understand everything at the same time, yes I could fathom creation completely. Auke Sonnega, born March 9, 1910 in Leeuwarden, known as the painter, primarily of young Balinese men and women. Originally raised in the reformed denomination, the parents of Auke apparently practised theosophy and their children, including Auke were taught these principles. The talent for drawing revealed itself at an early stage which in 1926 lead to a 4-year study of textile design at the Academy for Art and Craft in Amsterdam. He completed the academy in 1930 and worked in a carpet factory in Twente until 1934 and then followed in his sister Aafje’s footsteps leaving the Netherlands to go to the Dutch East Indies where in 1935 he started working as a graphic designer with an advertising bureau in Batavia. He was able to travel through Java and Bali on the motorbike that he brought with him from Europe, and was paid for his travelogue, enhanced with his own photo’s which appeared in several Dutch newspapers and magazines. In the 1930’s two Europeans, Walter Spies and Rudolf Bonnet...