Lot 357
  • 357

Pierre Bonnard

Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
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Description

  • Pierre Bonnard
  • Boule de neige, enfants et chien dans le jardin du Grand-Lemps
  • Stamped Bonnard (lower left)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 18 3/8 by 20 7/8 in.
  • 46.5 by 53 cm

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Maurice Coutot, Paris
Thence by descent to the present owner

Literature

Jean & Henri Dauberville, Bonnard, Catalogue raisonnĂ© de l'oeuvre peint, 1940-1947 et supplĂ©ment 1887-1939, vol. IV, Paris, 1974, no. 01853, illustrated p. 224 

Condition

Work is in good condition. Canvas is lined but retains a rich impasto and painterly surface. Under UV light: storkes of inpainting along top edge, bottom edge at right to address frame abrasion, and one pindot of inpainting to left of signature, otherwise fine.
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