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Bernard BUFFET - The Empire State Building, 1959, original signed engraving

Bernard BUFFET
The Empire State Building, 1959
Original drypoint engraving on BFK Rives paper
(Lacourière and Frélaut workshops)
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 76 x 56 cm

In excellent condition, small handling flaws - extremely sparse

REFERENCES : Référenced in the catalogue raisonné under the reference 15 (Rheims, page 26)

INFORMATIONS : Engraving created in 1959, it was printed at 150 signed and numbered copies and a hundred of copies such as this one, used as a limited edition poster for the Galerie Garnier exhibition.

Drypoint : Engraving technique using a thin steel needle to cut the metal plate.
Bernard Buffet : (1928 - 1999) was a major French expressionist painter and lithograph. His works belong to the collections of the greatest museums in Europe, Americas and Asia : In France (Musée des Beaux Arts de Nantes, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Centre Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne, Institut culturel Bernard Magrez, Centre national des arts plastiques, Musée d'art Roger-Quilliot); US (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Carnegie Museum of art, Boca Raton Museum of art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Utah Museum of Fine Art, Eli ans Edythe Broad Art Museum); Denmark (Randers Kunstmuseum); Germany (MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Merkel collection & foundation); Macedonia (Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje); Finland (Tampereen kaupunki - Tampere Art Museum); Japan (National Museum of Western Art & Matsukata Collection,Ohara Museum of Art, The Bridgestone Museum of art Ishibashi Foundation); UK (Tate Collection); Sweden (The Modern Museum - Moderna Museet); and Taiwan (JuMing Museum)

The Bridgestone Museum of art Ishibashi Foundation (Japan)
Musée des Beaux Arts de Nantes (France)
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) (The USA)
Carnegie Museum of art (The USA)
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (France)
Centre Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne (France)
Institut culturel Bernard Magrez (France)
Randers Kunstmuseum (Denmark)
Boca Raton Museum of art (The USA)
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje (FYROM)
Tampereen kaupunki - Tampere Art Museum (Finland)
Centre national des arts plastiques (France)
Merkel collection & foundation (Germany)
National Museum of Western Art & Matsukata Collection (Japan)
Musée d'art Roger-Quilliot (France)
Tate Collection (United Kingdom)
The Art Institute of Chicago (The USA)
Utah Museum of Fine Art (The USA)
The Modern Museum in Sweden - Moderna Museet (Sweden)
Ohara Museum of Art (Japan)
Eli ans Edythe Broad Art Museum (The USA)
JuMing Museum (Taiwan)
Musée d'art et d'histoire Louis Senlecq (France)
Collection Gelonch Viladegut
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