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14 © 2021, ProLitteris, Zurich © 2021, ProLitteris, Zurich Bernard Buffet After a period during which interest in Buffet’s artistic work waned, in recent years it has once again become the focus of museums, researchers and art collectors. Assiette et vase de fleurs bleues. 1957. Oil on canvas. 65 × 46 cm. Sold for CHF 90 000 Otto Piene Piene’s ‘light-slippery’ grid paintings belong to the canon of 20 th - century minimalist art. He first showed them in 1957 in an exhibition of the artist group ZERO. Rasterbild 2. 1957. Oil on canvas. 50 × 70 cm. Sold for CHF 255 000 Karl Schmidt-Rottluff In the years after the Second World War, the Brücke artist Schmidt-Rot- tluff was often a guest at a collector’s home in the Spessart. It was there that he created this typical landscape painting. Pines in the Spessart. 1950. Oil on canvas. 76 × 90 cm. Sold for CHF 450 000 Pierre-Auguste Renoir With loose brushwork and atmospher- ic colours, Renoir invites us to take an autumn walk in the south of France at the turn of the century . L’allée d’arbres. Circa 1900. Oil on canvas. 33.5 × 26.5 cm. Sold for CHF 230 000 Mark Tobey In 1960 Tobey moved to Basel, where gallery owner Ernst Beyeler offered him a nurturing environment. It was there that the American created his shimmering, rhythmic tempera textures. Circular Rhythms. 1965. Tempera on paper. 87 × 57 cm. Sold for CHF 120 000 © 2021, ProLitteris, Zurich © 2021, ProLitteris, Zurich