BERNARD BUFFET

PARK AVENUE VIEW FROM THE PAN AM BUILDING, 1989

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About the Artwork

Bernard Buffet (1928–1999), Park Avenue View from the Pan Am Building (Park Avenue vue du Pan Am Building), 1989
Oil on canvas. Promised gift of Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld, Scenes of New York City. © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

This painting pictures old New York overtaken by the new. It looks down upon the once- towering New York Central (now Helmsley) Building—a vestige of flamboyant 1920s architecture now dwarfed by box-like modern high-rises, including the Pan Am (now MetLife) Building, the vantage point for this view.

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