Daniel Buren, Les Deux Plateaux

Daniel Buren

French · b. 1938 · Painter, Printmaker

Daniel Buren is a French conceptual artist, painter, and sculptor. He has won numerous awards including the Golden Lion for best pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1986), the… (Wikipedia)

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  1. Daniel Buren, Peinture aux formes variables, paint on cotton cloth woven with red and white stripes, alternating and vertical 8.7 cm wide eachPeinture aux formes variablesPhillips · £881,500≈ $1,179,535≈ €1,064,947Sign up to see
  2. Daniel Buren, Peinture acrylique blanche sur tissu rayé blanc et rouge, white acrylic paint on cotton canvas, woven in alternating white and red stripesPeinture acrylique blanche sur tissu rayé blanc et rougePhillips · £275,000≈ $360,910≈ €320,211Sign up to see
  3. Daniel Buren, Peinture acrylique sur tissu rayé blanc et rouge, white acrylic paint on linen, woven in alternating white and red stripesPeinture acrylique sur tissu rayé blanc et rougePhillips · £243,000≈ $315,536≈ €274,331Sign up to see

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Daniel Buren is a French conceptual artist, painter, and sculptor. He has won numerous awards including the Golden Lion for best pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1986), the International Award for best artist in Stuttgart (1991) and the prestigious Premium Imperiale for painting in Tokyo in 2007. He has created several world-famous installations, including "Les Deux Plateaux"(1985) in the Cour d'honneur of the Palais-Royal, and the Observatory of the Light in Fondation Louis Vuitton. He is one of the most active and recognised artists on the international scene, and his work has been welcomed by the most important institutions and sites around the world.

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Born 1938, Boulogne-BillancourtOccupation Painter, Printmaker, Sculptor, Draughtsman, Illustrator, PhotographerWikidata Q593621 ↗ULAN 500033028 ↗Museum works 2

In the collections of

TateArt Gallery of OntarioArt Institute of ChicagoBelvedereCODA MuseumDe AppelGroninger MuseumHamburger BahnhofHessel Museum of ArtKröller-Müller MuseumM LeuvenMontreal Museum of Fine ArtsMu.ZEE - Kunstmuseum aan ZeeMuseo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofíaMuseum Boijmans Van BeuningenMuseum of Modern ArtMusée National d'Art ModerneMusée d'art contemporain de MontréalMusée d'art moderne de ParisNational Gallery of VictoriaPhiladelphia Museum of ArtRoyal Museums of Fine Arts of BelgiumSan Francisco Museum of Modern ArtSeattle Art MuseumSmithsonian American Art MuseumSolomon R. Guggenheim MuseumStedelijk Museum AmsterdamStedelijk Museum voor Actuele KunstStädel MuseumVan AbbemuseumWallonia-Brussels Federation Museum of Contemporary ArtsWhitney Museum of American ArtZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

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Works in museum collections

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Daniel Buren, Les Deux Plateaux
Les Deux Plateaux1986
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CC BY 2.0 · ros k @ getfunky_paris, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)
Daniel Buren, Le Vent Souffle Où Il Veut
Le Vent Souffle Où Il Veut2009
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CC BY 4.0 · Sandra Fauconnier, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)

Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), National Gallery of Art open data (CC0), Art Institute of Chicago API (CC0), The Met Open Access (CC0), MoMA collection data (CC0), Tate collection data (CC0). See data sources & attribution.

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