Deux oiseaux dont un picorant

Details

Bernard Buffet (1928-1999)
Deux oiseaux dont un picorant
signed 'Bernard Buffet' (upper left)
oil on canvas
78 3/4 x 59 1/8 in. (200 x 150.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1980-1981

Provenance

Galerie Maurice Garnier, Paris.
Galerie Taménaga, Tokyo (no. 344).
Acquired from the above by the present owner in March 1982.

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Lot Essay

This work is recorded in the Maurice Garnier Archives.

The present lot, from the series Les Grues d’Hokkaido, shows two of the famous ‘dancing cranes’ of the Kushiro Marshland in Hokkaido. At one time thought to be extinct, by the time that Buffet saw them on his first trip to Japan in 1980, they were a compelling tourist attraction, as they are to this day. The clear angularity and characterful nature of the cranes could not fail to attract Buffet’s eye, and an exhibition devoted to seven striking works from this series was held at Galerie Maurice Garnier in October 1981.

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