Mar 08, 2016 - Sale 2407

Sale 2407 - Lot 601

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
BERNARD BUFFET
U.N.O.

Drypoint, 1959. 535x690 mm; 21x27 1/8 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 87/200 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Lacourière and Frélaut, Pairs. Published by the artist, Paris. A superb, richly-inked impression.

Designed by Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, the iconic United Nations headquarters in New York, at 1st Avenue between 42nd and 48th Streets, was constructed from 1949 to 1952. The general assembly room of the main headquarters building is adorned with murals by Fernand Léger. Reinz 227.