PIERRE BONNARD | Nature morte sur une nappe à carreaux rouges

Private Collection, France
Galerie Cazeau-Béraudière, Paris
Acquired from the above on January 20, 2004

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pierre Bonnard: The Late Interiors, 2009, no. 54, illustrated in color in the catalogue

The work is in very good condition. Executed on cream wove paper. The sheet is t-hinged to a mount at two place along the top edge of its verso. There are artist's pinholes in all four corners. The left and bottom edges are deckled. There is a minor nick to the lower left corner, along the left edge. The sheet is unevenly time-stained. There is residue from an edhesive along all four edges of the verso, likely from a previous mounting. Written in pencil on verso: "Bonnard..." "35 42".
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The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville.