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Property from the Estate of William J. Levy, Sold to Benefit the Endowed Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania

Pierre Bonnard

Boulevard des Batignolles (La Pluie)

Auction Closed

November 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Estate of William J. Levy, Sold to Benefit the Endowed Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania

Pierre Bonnard

1867 - 1947


Boulevard des Batignolles (La Pluie)

signed Bonnard (lower right)

oil on canvas

24¾ by 25½ in.

62.9 by 64.8 cm.

Executed circa 1926.

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired directly from the artist in 1931)
Katia Granoff, Paris
Sir Kenneth Clark, London
Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London 
The Lefevre Gallery, London
Mrs. John Armstrong, London 
Dr. Fritz and Peter Nathan, Zurich
Sam Josefowitz, Switzerland (acquired from the above circa 1957)
Christie's, New York, 7 November 1995, lot 3 (consigned by the estate of the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Adelaide, National Gallery of South Australia and Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, Herald Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art, 1939, no. 8
London, Roland, Browse & Delbanco, Between Monet and Bonnard, 1949, no. 8
London, Roland, Browse & Delbanco, Bonnard, 1950, no. 31
London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., Roussel, Bonnard, Vuillard, 1954, no. 39, p. 44
London, The Lefevre Gallery, XIXe and XXe Century French Paintings, 1965, no. 2, p. 5, illustrated
Paris, Petit Palais, De Géricault à Matisse, Chefs-d'œuvre français des collections suisses, 1959, no. 5, pl. 45, illustrated 
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Pierre Bonnard, 1867-1947, 1966, no. 159, p. 55
Hamburg, Kunstverein, Pierre Bonnard: Gemälde, Aquqrelle, Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik, 1970, no. 27, pl. 30, illustrated 
Albert Morancé, "Pierre Bonnard," L'Art d'Aujourd'hui, Fall 1927, no. 15, pl. 53, illustrated
Art News Annual, vol. XXVI, 1957, p. 18, illustrated
Fritz Nathan, Dr. Fritz Nathan und Dr. Peter Nathan, 25, Jahre, 1936-1961, Zurich 1961, p. 60, illustrated 
Jean and Henry Dauberville, Bonnard, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1920-1939, vol. III, Paris 1973,  no. 1351, pp. 285-87, illustrated in color