
Property from an Important European Collection
Nature morte au melon
Estimate
2,800,000 - 3,500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important European Collection
Pierre Bonnard
(1867 - 1947)
Nature morte au melon
signed Bonnard (lower right)
oil on canvas
20 ⅛ by 24 ⅜ in.
51.2 by 61.9 cm.
Executed in 1941.
Galerie Pierre Colle, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)
Private Collection, Paris (acquired by descent from the above)
Sotheby’s, New York, 5 November 2003, lot 11 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)
Sotheby’s, New York, 8 May 2007, lot 4 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
London, Tate Gallery and New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Bonnard, 1998, no. 84, p. 220; p. 221, illustrated in color
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pierre Bonnard: The Late Still Lifes and Interiors, 2009, no. 70, p. 162, illustrated in color
André Lhote, Bonnard, Seize Peintures 1939-1943, Paris, 1944, pl. X, illustrated in color
François-Joachim Beer, Pierre Bonnard, Marseille, 1947, pl. 126, p. 146, illustrated (titled Fruits)
André Lhote, Bonnard, Peintures 1894-1946, Paris, 1948, pl. XIII, illustrated
Jean Dauberville and Henry Dauberville, Bonnard, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint 1940-1947, vol. IV, Paris 1974, no. 1629, p. 60, illustrated (titled Nature morte au citron and dated 1943)
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