Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
The Impressionist Spirit: An Important Private Collection
Oranges et kakis
Auction Closed
May 17, 12:56 AM GMT
Estimate
3,000,000 - 4,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
The Impressionist Spirit: An Important Private Collection
Pierre Bonnard
1867 - 1947
Oranges et kakis
stamped with the signature Bonnard (lower right)
oil on canvas
21 ½ by 27 ⅞ in. 54.7 by 71.1 cm
Executed circa 1940.
Estate of the artist
Wildenstein & Co, New York (acquired from the above in 1963)
Acquired from the above on 8 April 2004 by the present owner
Annette Vailliant, Jean Cassou, Raymond Cogniat and Hans R. Hahnloser, Bonnard, ou, le bonheur de voir, Neuchâtel, 1965, p. 121, illustrated in color (titled Corbeille de fruits and dated 1928-30)
Jean and Henry Dauberville, Bonnard, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, vol. IV, Paris, 1974, no. 1592, p. 33, illustrated
Michel Terrasse, Bonnard et le Cannet, Paris, 1987, p. 124, listed
Günter Metken, “Die Zweite Unschuld des sehens,” Weltkunst, vol. 54, no. 8, 15 April 1984, p. 1102, illustrated in color (titled La Corbeille de fruits: oranges et kakis and dated 1940)
Denys Sutton, “The Inquiring Mind of Pierre Bonnard,” Apollo, vol. CXXV, no. 300, February 1987, p. 135, pl V, illustrated in color (titled The Fruit Basket: Oranges and Persimmons and dated 1940)
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Pierre Bonnard1867-1947, 1966, no. 215, p. 62 (titled La Corbeille de Fruits and dated circa 1933)
Melbourne, The National Gallery of Victoria, Adelaide, The Art Gallery of South Australia, Perth, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Canberra, Albert Hall and Sydney, Australia Museum and Johannesburg Art Gallery, Pierre Bonnard 1867-1947, 1971-72, no. 26, illustrated in color (titled La Corbeille de Fruits and dated circa 1933)
Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947), 1972, no. 26, illustrated in color (titled La Corbeille de fruits and dated circa 1933)
São Paulo, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, Pierre Bonnard, 1867-1947, 1972, no. 26, illustrated
Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Bonnard, Vuillard, Roussel, 1975, no. 22, p. 61, illustrated in color
Tokyo, Nihonbashi Takashimaya Galleries, Kobe, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art and Fukuoka Municipal Art Museum, Bonãru Ten, Exposition Pierre Bonnard, 1980-81, no. 76, pl. 76, illustrated
Geneva, Musée Rath, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Pierre Bonnard, 1981, no. 76, pl. 76, illustrated in color (titled La Corbeille de fruits: oranges et kakis and dated 1940)
New York, Wildenstein & Co., The Inquiring Eye of Pierre Bonnard, 1981, no. 51, p. 27; pl. 32, illustrated in color (titled The Fruit Basket: Oranges and Persimmons and dated 1940)
Madrid, Fundación Juan March and Barcelona, Sala de la Caixa, Bonnard, 1983-84, no. 56, n.p., illustrated in color (titled Cesta de frutas: Naranjas y caquis and dated 1940)
Lausanne, Fondation de l’Hermitage, Pierre Bonnard, et son monde enchanté, 1991, p. 165, no. 68, pl. 68, illustrated in color (titled La Corbeille de Fruits: Oranges et Kakis and dated 1940)
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Time of the Nabis, 1998, no. 34, p. 87, illustrated in color; p. 94, illustrated (titled Fruit Basket: Oranges and Persimmons)
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Pierre Bonnard, 1999, no. 60, pp. 154-55, illustrated in color (titled La Corbeille de fruits: oranges et kakis)
Paris, Fondation Dina Vierny, Musée Maillol, Pierre Bonnard, 2000, no. 51, p. 102; p. 77, illustrated in color (titled La Corbeille de fruits: oranges et kakis)
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Bonnard, 2000-01, no. 55, pp. 53 and 122; p. 116, illustrated in color (titled The Fruit Basket: Oranges and Persimmons)
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pierre Bonnard, The Late Still Lifes and Interiors, 2009, no. 62, p. 155, illustrated in color (titled Basket of Fruits: Orange and Persimmons)