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Pierre Bonnard  (French, Fontenay-aux-Roses 1867–1947 Le Cannet)

Date:
1909
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
49 x 39 1/8 in. (124.5 x 99.4 cm)
Classification:
Paintings
Credit Line:
Bequest of Charles Goldman, 1966
Accession Number:
66.65.1
Rights and Reproduction:
© 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 828

  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Signed (upper right): Bonnard

  • Provenance

    [Bernheim Jeune, Paris, 1909-10; purchased from the artist in 1909; sold on January 8, 1910 to Bernstein]; Henry Bernstein, Paris (from 1910); [reportedly Ambroise Vollard, Paris]; [Sam Salz, New York, until 1955; sold to Goldman]; Charles Goldman, New York (1955-d. 1966; his bequest to MMA with life interest to his widow, d. 2001)

  • Exhibition History

    Paris. MM. Bernheim Jeune & Cie. "Exposition Bonnard," March 7–26, 1910, no. 26 (as "Verdure").

    New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Summer Loan Exhibition: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture from Private Collections," July 8–September 6, 1966, no. 4 (as "From the Balcony," lent by Mrs. Charles Goldman)

    Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. "The Masterpieces of French Painting from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1800-1920," February 4–May 6, 2007, no. 120.

    Berlin. Neue Nationalgalerie. "Französische Meisterwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts aus dem Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," June 1–October 7, 2007, unnumbered cat. (p. 244; as "Ins Grüne" or "Der Balkon").

  • References

    Jean and Henry Dauberville. Bonnard: Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint. Vol. 2, 1906–1919. Paris, 1968, p. 153, no. 543, ill.

    Gloria Groom in Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde. Ed. Rebecca A. Rabinow. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2006, p. 99 n. 65.

    Sabine Rewald in The Masterpieces of French Painting from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1800–1920. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. New York, 2007, pp. 162, 180, no. 120, ill. (color and bw).

    Sabine Rewald in Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800–1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2007, pp. 192, 214, no. 177, ill. (color and bw).

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