Condition
Dirty varnish; edged with paper tape; pinholes in corners, tiny loss to the paper in the upper left corner; paper buckling on the canvas at the upper right corner due to old water damage, with a corresponding several inch triangular area of discoloration in and around the glass; tiny paint flake at center left; two one inch areas of partial tears to the sheet, one at the upper left center, and the other at the lower right center; slight buckling in the left corners; no apparent restoration. On Canson & Montgolfier paper.
Literature
Fonds de Dotation Bernard Buffet (ed.), Bernard Buffet, Catalogue Raisonné de l'Œuvre peint, vol.1, 1941-1953, Paris, 2019, p. 186, illus. This work is recorded in the Galerie Maurice Garnier archives. A certificate of authenticity can be issued on request and at the purchaser's expense.