Bernard BUFFET (1928-1999). "Le bougeoir", 1952. Oil on canvas signed and dated lower right, numbered "H78" on the back (craquelure and slight lack of material). Height : 27 cm - Width : 41 cm Accompanied by a letter from Mr. Philippe R. David, on Galerie Maurice Garnier letterhead, dated September 18, 1990. Provenance : - Public auction sale of June 9, 1972 at Maître Binoche, Paris, under n°183 ; - Private collection of a member of the collector's collective La Peau du Chat, then by descent. Bibliography: Fonds de Dotation Bernard Buffet (ed.). Bernard Buffet, Catalogue raisonné de l'Œuvre peint, vol. I, 1941-1953. Paris, 2019. Reproduced on page 272.