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Property from a Private European Collection

Pierre Bonnard

Nu s'habillant

Auction Closed

May 16, 12:52 AM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private European Collection 


Pierre Bonnard

1867 - 1947 


Nu s'habillant

signed Bonnard (lower left) 

oil on canvas 

29 ¼ by 17 ¾ in. 

74.2 by 45.2 cm. 

Executed in 1925.

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired directly from the artist in 1925)

Georges Lurcy, Paris (acquired from the above)

Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 7 November 1957, lot 48 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Rosenberg & Stiebel Gallery, New York (acquired from the above) 

Henry Ford II, Detroit (acquired from the above in 1957)

Sotheby's, New York, 12 November 1990, lot 15 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Jan Krugier Gallery, Geneva and New York (acquired at the above sale and until at least 1998)

Private Collection, San Francisco

Sotheby's, New York, 5 November 2015, lot 29 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Thadée Natanson, Le Bonnard que je propose, Geneva, 1951, pl. 48, illustrated (titled Nu and dated circa 1919)

L'Oeil, Paris, no. 33, Noël 1957, p. 90 

Jean and Henry Dauberville, Bonnard, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, vol. III, Paris, 1973, no. 1331, p. 269, illustrated  

"Bonnard," Louisiana Revy, no. 1, September 1992, no. 73, p. 22, illustrated in color and p. 89 (titled Femme nue)

Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Pierre Bonnard: Das Glück zu maleu, 1993, no. 37, p. 155, illustrated in color (titled Femme nue)

Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Pierre Bonnard, 1992-93, no. 73, p. 22, illustrated in color and p. 89 

Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Bonnard, 1994, no. 107, illustrated in color (titled Femme nue)

London, Tate Gallery and New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Bonnard, 1998, no. 49, pp. 150-51, illustrated in color