Pierre Bonnard

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired directly from the artist in 1921)
Albert Henraux, Paris
Galerie Neupert, Zurich
Dr Alfred Reinhardt, Solothurn (acquired from the above on 13th March 1941)
Thence by descent to the present owners

Paris, Galerie E. Druet, Exposition de 25 peintres contemporains, 1925, no. 10

Jean & Henry Dauberville, Bonnard, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint 1920-1939, Paris, 1973, vol. III, no. 1064, illustrated p. 82

The canvas is not lined. UV examination reveals a tiny spot of retouching in the upper right quadrant associated with a fleck of paint loss. There are a few very fine lines of stable craquelure in places. Otherwise, this work is in very good overall condition.
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'With the exception of Vuillard, no painter of his generation was to endow his technique with so much sensual delight, so much feeling for the indefinable texture of paint, so much vibration. His paintings are covered with colour applied with a delicate voluptuousness that confers to the pigment a life of its own and treats every single stroke like a clear note of a symphony.'
(John Rewald in Pierre Bonnard (exhibition catalogue), The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1948, p. 48)