Lot 4
  • 4

Pierre Bonnard

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Pierre Bonnard
  • Campagne, Le Labour
  • Stamped with the artist's signature Bonnard (lower left)
  • Oil on paper laid down on canvas
  • 11 7/8 by 16 1/4 in.
  • 30.2 by 41.3 cm
  • Painted circa 1909.

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Sale: Sotheby's, London, November 30, 1988, lot 266

Literature

Jean & Henry Dauberville, Bonnard, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1940-1947 & supplément 1887-1939, vol. IV, Paris, 1974, no. 01954, illustrated p. 288

Condition

Picture surface is in good condition, though flattened. Under UV light: dirty, streaky varnish. There appears to be a small repair, with retouching, in the upper right part of the sky about 3 in (8 cm) diagonally away from the upper right corner.
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