Bernard Buffet, Le Cirque – Le jongleur, 1955
Date
Dimensions
230 x 150 cm (90 ½ x 59 in)
Media
Oil on canvas
Description
Signed “Bernard Buffet” and dated “55” (upper right)
Galerie Drouant David label and Dartmouth College Hood Museum of Art label attached on the stretcher.
This work is recorded in the Galerie Maurice Garnier archives. The original certificate has been lost and will not be replaced. No other documents will be issued.
Provenance
Galerie Drouant David, Paris
Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired from the above in 1956)
Mrs Lita Annenberg Hazen and Mr Joseph H. Hazen, United States
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (acquired as a gift from the above in 1960 and until 2013)
Private Collection circa 2013
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 11 Nov 2024, Lot 27
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner