Bernard Buffet (Paris 1928 - 1999 ), "Clown au fond rouge" (Clown on a red background), 1967, color lithograph on Acropole-Vélin, signed in the stone on the right, from: Fernand Mourlot, "Bernard Buffet: Werkverzeichnis der Lithographien 1952-1966", Orangerie-Verlag Cologne 1967, WVZ: Mourlot 108, 32.2 x 23.4 cm, under glass and passepartout in plain black frame, overall size: 49 x 41.5 cm. Limit 99,- >> From 1943 École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, first exhibition at the Salon in 1946, 1948 Prix de la Critique, numerous works in the Musée du Petit Palais Paris, lithograph: Bénézit.

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