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AEDBernard Buffet (1928-1999) French, "Place de la Concorde" Framed Lithograph
About Seller
522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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LiveJun 13, 2026
Day 1 features 800+ lots packed with standout finds, including a Cleve Gray abstract oil painting, Florida Highwaymen works, a Sonia Delaunay geometric composition, a Robert Rauschenberg mixed media collage, rare 1960s Beatles photos, and an exceptional estate jewelry collection. Discover fine art by Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí, Alexander Calder, Peter Max, and more, alongside sterling silver by Tiffany & Co., Georg Jensen, and Gorham, plus Baccarat, Lalique, Daum glass, Harry Bertoia chairs, fashion, collectibles, and unique treasures throughout. Sarasota Estate Auction sarasotaestateauction@gmail.com
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Bernard Buffet (1928-1999) French, "Place de la Concorde" Framed Lithograph. Depicts a view of the river with a tree right on the bank. Signature and date '68 bottom right. Certificate of authenticity and brief info on artist attached to the back of the frame.
Overall Size: 27 x 22 in.
Sight Size: 22 1/2 x 18 in.
Bernard Buffet was born in 1928 in Paris to a middle-class family, and was a student at the Lycée Carnot during the Nazi occupation of Paris, as well as studying at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. He worked in the studio of the painter Eugène Narbonne where he began producing religious pieces, landscapes, portraits, and still lifes heavily influenced by Francis Gruber. He often painted so-called “Miserabilist” scenes of despair, including scenes of poverty and Holocaust victims, with nearly all the work in his adult life characterized by thick black lines, elongated forms, and a lack of depth of field. He had his first showing in 1946 with at least one major exhibition every year for the next three decades, and by the age of 21 Buffet was already considered one of the greatest stars of the European art world, frequently compared to Pablo Picasso, but in the mid 1960s the public and the art world began to lose interest in him as his lavish lifestyle made him seem out of touch with the struggles of post-war France. Industrialist Pierre Bergé was Buffet’s live-in lover from 1950 to 1958 before leaving him for Yves Saint Laurent the same year Buffet married the writer and actress Annabel Schwob, with whom he adopted three children. His life was plagued by depression and he began to succumb to Parkinson’s in the late 1980s, dying by suicide at his palatial home in Tourtour on October 4th, 1999 after having completed an estimated 8,000 works in total in his lifetime.
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Overall Size: 27 x 22 in.
