Lot 211
  • 211

Pierre Bonnard

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
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Description

  • Pierre Bonnard
  • La Promenade
  • Signed Bonnard (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 12 by 22 in.
  • 30.5 by 56 cm

Provenance

Galérie André Weil, Paris
David B. Findlay Galleries, New York
Collection Guttmann, New York (acquired by 1965)
Mr. & Mrs. Sydney R. Barlow, Beverly Hills (acquired by 1975 and sold: Christie's, New York, May 16, 1977, lot 1)
Acquired at the above sale

Exhibited

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (on loan circa 1974-75)

Literature

Jean & Henry Dauberville, Bonnard: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1888-1905, vol. I, Paris, 1965, no. 325, illustrated p. 294

Condition

The canvas is unlined. The edges are reinforced with tape. The surface is nicely textured. Under UV light a thin layer of varnish is difficult to read through, although there appear to be some old retouches near the center and right of the top edge. Otherwise fine. This work is in good condition.
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