Bernard BUFFET – Original drawing – “Sagouins” – 1959.
Magnificent costume study by Bernard Buffet, titled at the top "Sagoins" and annotated in the margin "very tight pink-violet trousers", for Marcel Aymé's operetta play, "Patron".
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Magnificent costume study by Bernard Buffet, titled at the top "Sagoins" and annotated in the margin "very tight pink-violet trousers", for Marcel Aymé's operetta play, "Patron".
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Bernard BUFFET (1928.1999)
Original drawing – Sagoins.
Black pencil and graphite pencils – blue, white and red – on heavy paper.
Large format artwork: 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 pink-violet trousers", for Marcel Aymé's operetta play, "Patron".
"Patron," an operetta by Marcel Aymé, premiered at the Sarah Bernhardt Theatre on September 10, 1959, with Zizi Jeanmaire in the lead role. The staging and choreography were entrusted to Roland Petit (Zizi Jeanmaire's husband), the music to Guy Béart, and the sets and costumes to Bernard Buffet.
Provenance: Formerly in the collection of Roland Petit and Zizi Jeanmaire, Paris.
Exhibition: Geneva, Musée Rath, Zizi Jeanmaire – Roland Petit, A heritage for dance , April-August 2007, p. 202, no. 1 (illustrated in color).
Slight defect in the lower left margin.