Pierre Bonnard

Estate of the artist, bears his stamp: PB

Sold in a modern wood frame. Recently laid down. In excellent condition. Some very slight creasing along the lower margin, but barely noticeable. The paper is clear and the graphite much stronger than appears in the catalogue illustration.
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Bonnard's importance to the Nabis group is here shown clearly, even in a small pencil study. The Nabis were a group of artist friends who radically changed the face of painting leading up to the radical movements of the early 1900s. In the present work the pattern of the background is as important as the figure.

The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville.