Bernard BUFFET - Original drawing - "Sagouins" - 1959.

Bernard BUFFET (1928.1999)

Original drawing – Sagoins.

Black pencil and graphite pencils – blue, white and red – on strong paper.

Large format work: 43.30 x 27.70 cm

Executed in 1959.

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Magnificent costume study by Bernard Buffet, titled at the top "Sagoins" and annotated in the margin "very tight-fitting pink-purple pants", for Marcel Aymé's operetta play, "Patron".

“Patron”, an operetta by Marcel Aymé, was created at the Sarah Bernhardt theater on September 10, 1959, with Zizi Jeanmaire in the lead role. The direction and choreography were entrusted to Roland Petit (husband of Zizi Jeanmaire), the music to Guy Béart, and the sets and costumes to Bernard Buffet.

Provenance: Former Roland Petit and Zizi Jeanmaire collection, Paris.

Exhibition: Geneva, Rath Museum, Zizi Jeanmaire – Roland Petit, A heritage for dance , April-August 2007, p. 202, no. 1 (shown in color).

Slight loss in the lower left margin.