3269-A - BERNARD BUFFET

BERNARD BUFFET (Paris 1928–1999 Tourtour) La Bretagne 4. 1982. Oil on canvas. Signed upper right: Bernard Buffet. Dated upper left: 1982. 73 × 100 cm. Certificate: Galerie Maurice Garnier, Paris, September 9, 2010. Provenance: - Shinwa Art Auction, Tokyo, November 20, 2010, lot 169. - Private collection, western Switzerland. With its rugged coastline and ever-changing light, Brittany offered Bernard Buffet a compelling range of subjects. As a child, the artist regularly visited the French Atlantic coast with his mother. He returned to the region repeatedly in later years, initially with his then-partner Pierre Bergé. In 1965, he and his wife Annabel purchased a house in Saint-Cast on the Breton coast. Brittany thus remained an important point of reference in his life and artistic work for decades. In 1982, Buffet devoted an entire series of paintings to the region, numbering them consecutively under the title “La Bretagne.” The present work is the fourth in that series.