Bernard BUFFET - Dante’s Inferno, 1976 - Album of 11 drypoint etchings
Dante's Inferno, 1976
Folio album, half-bound in black morocco with corners, containing 11 original drypoint etchings printed on Moulin du Gué paper:
"Virgil", "Dante", "The Laughing Damned", "The Harpy", "Toothless Figure", "The Man with the Severed Head", "Two Damned", "Angelo", "Head Upside Down", "Lucifer" and "Head in Ice"
Limited edition of 120 copies, of which only the justification is signed and numbered in pencil by the artist, Copy no. 80
Dimensions: Case 78.5 x 60 x 3.5 cm - Album 77.5 x 59 x 3 cm - Sheet 75.5 x 56.5 cm
Bibliography: Reproduced and listed under numbers 357 to 367 in Bernard Buffet Graveur 1948-1980, Maurice Reims, Editions d'Art de Francony, Editions Maurice Garnier
Excellent condition
(Interior in pristine condition, a few tiny scratches on one hinge of the album's spine)
Dimensions :
- Height : 75.5 cm
- Width : 56.5 cm
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)
Drypoint :
Engraving technique using a thin steel needle to cut the metal plate.
