BUFFET BERNARD: (1928-1999) With an original drawing

BUFFET BERNARD: (1928-1999) With an original drawing
BUFFET BERNARD: (1928-1999) French painter. An excellent book signed and inscribed, being a hardback edition of Vingt-Mille dieues sous les Mers de Jules Verne, First edition with French text published by Garnier, Paris, 1990, as the catalogue to accompany Buffet´s exhibition Vingt-Mille dieues sous les Mers at the Galerie Maurice Garnier in Paris from February to March 1990. Illustrated with various colour and black & white reproductions of Buffet´s paintings inspired by Jules Verne´s novel, and some photographs of the artist working in his studio by Danielle Buffet. Bound in the publisher´s blue cloth with black printed title and pastedown and endpapers featuring Buffet´s facsimile signature. Signed twice by Buffet to the front free endpaper, once in black ink with his name alone at the head of the page, and a second time with an inscription in French and alongside a large original black ink drawing of three sunflowers, signed and dated 1992. With an unsigned 6.5 x 9.5 photograph of Buffet in a half-length pose neatly cornermounted to the page opposite. Accompanied by the loosely inserted printed correspondence card of French politician Jack Lang, who served as Minister of Culture 1981-86 & 1988-93, contained in an envleope addressed to Michael Braukmann (to whom Buffet inscribed the book). A handsome signed book enhanced with an original illustration. Some light age wear to the covers and a couple of minor, small bumps to the corbers. About VG