Bernard Buffet - L’Île Saint-Louis, 1962.

Bernard Buffet’s Paris album (1962) is an artistic homage to the City of Light, composed of ten original color lithographs, each depicting an iconic landmark of the French capital. Signed and numbered in an edition of 150, these works capture—with Buffet’s unmistakable graphic rigor—sites such as Île Saint-Louis, Place des Vosges, Sacré-Cœur, and Notre-Dame de Paris. By uniting the monumental grandeur of Parisian architecture with a timeless, melancholic atmosphere, Buffet succeeds in magnifying the very essence of the city. Accompanied by the poetry of Baudelaire, the lithographs transcend realism to become universal symbols of the soul and history of Paris. This portfolio, with its rare evocative power, reflects the artist’s profound attachment to this mythical capital and stands as a landmark of modern romanticism.