Lot 56
  • 56

Pierre Bonnard

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Pierre Bonnard
  • Marthe Bonnard en corsage rouge
  • signed Bonnard (lower right)
  • oil on cardboard
  • 45.3 x 38 cm ; 17 7/8 x 15 in.

Provenance

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired from the artist in 1916)
The Independent Gallery, London
Sir Michael Ernest Sadler, Oxford
Adams Gallery, London
Marcus W. Wickham-Boynton Esq., Burton Agnes Hall, Driffield, Yorkshire (acquired before 1955)
Vicente Arrozo, London
Maurice & Vivienne Wohl (acquired from the above on 13 October 1969)
Sale : Christie's, London, 5 February 2008, lot 355
Acquired at the above sale

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Bonnard, œuvres récentes, 1917, no. 4
Milan, Palazzo delle Permanente, Mostra di Pierre Bonnard, 1955, no. 35
Basel, Kunsthalle, Pierre Bonnard, 1955, no. 45
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Pierre Bonnard, 1966, no. 119

Literature

Gustave Coquiot, Bonnard, Paris, 1922, illustrated pl. 23 (titled Un buste)
Jean & Henry Dauberville, Bonnard, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, vol. II, 1906-1919, Paris, 1965, no. 871, illustrated p. 388

Condition

The colours are bright; the panel is sound but slightly convex upon close examination. Under UV light, a few small strokes of minor retouching fluoresce around the edges and in the background, with one thin 1cm line and dot on the sitters neck and a patch to the left of the signature. Otherwise this work is in very good condition.
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