Pawn Your Bernard Buffet Paintings & Art

A French master

Born in 1928 in Paris, and educated at the National School of Fine Arts on the Left Bank of the Seine, Bernard Buffet worked in Eugène Narbonne’s studio and developed a bold, graphic style of expressionism and deft use of colour. He also took a stand against abstract art by establishing the Witness Man collective of artists.

Buffet produced more than 8,000 works before taking his own life in 1999. Despite never achieving critical acclaim during his lifetime, Bernard Buffet enjoyed enormous commercial success, which explains the increasingly high value of his art and paintings at pawn shops .

Buffet’s works remain consistently popular with collectors and pawnbrokers alike, raising huge sums at auction. The highest price tag to date was for his 1991 work Les Clown Musiciens, Le Saxophoniste, which fetched £1 million at Christie’s in London in 2016. Second place goes to La Tour Eiffel (1955), which raised £774,000 at Matsart in Israel also in 2016; followed by Scene De Rue (1956), which Sotheby’s in New York sold for £620,000 in 1990.

A high-end pawnbroker you can trust your Bernard Buffet art with

If you do decide to take out loans on Bernard Buffet art or paintings, you should choose a reliable pawnbroker. New Bond Street Pawnbrokers has been providing loans against fine art for more than 30 years, supplying over £50 million in asset loans. Our expertise and attention to detail have earned the trust of our many international clients (with more than 80 per cent of clients returning to work with us again).

Besides expertise, we are also renowned for our discretion. Your finances, your Bernard Buffet art collection and the loan value of the works themselves are your private business, and you can trust our award winning pawn shop team that we won’t spread a word about either of them to anyone.

How to pawn my Bernard Buffet painting & art

So how do I pawn my Bernard Buffet painting at your pawn store in London? First, we will need to evaluate the work. Bring it to us (or we can visit you) and once we’ve verified the provenance and provided an estimate, we will store your work in a secure art storage facility appointed by Her Majesty The Queen.

With the valuation of your Bernard Buffet art or painting complete, we’ll offer you a loan with a contract regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. The maximum duration of the loans we offer against your Buffet art is normally seven months, although this can sometimes be extended if needed. Once the loan is repaid in full including the interest, we’ll return your Bernard Buffet work to you in great condition. You can continue to enjoy it at home and when the time is right, you can get a great price for it at auction too, if you wish.

If you are looking to pawn your art or paintings, some of the many artists we loan against include Andy Warhol, Bernard Buffet, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Marc Chagall, Raoul Duffy, Sean Scully, Tom Wesselmann, Tracey Emin, Banksy, and Roy Lichtenstein to name just a few.

*We are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority