La rade

Details

Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947)
La rade
signed 'Bonnard' (lower right)
oil on canvas
17½ x 21 in. (44.5 x 53.5 cm.)
Painted in 1929

Provenance

Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (no. 26352), by whom acquired from the artist in February 1930, until at least 1935.
Sejersted Bödtker, Oslo.
Ragnar Molzau, Oslo.
Marlborough Fine Art, London, by whom acquired from the above.
Galerie Krugier & Cie., Geneva.
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner in 1969.

Literature

D. de Rougemont, Panorama des événements, Paris, 1965, p. 153.
J. & H. Dauberville, Bonnard: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, vol. III, 1920-1939, Paris, 1973, no. 1414 (illustrated p. 331).

Exhibited

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition of Paintings, October - December 1934, no. 168 (illustrated).
Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus, Exposition d'art français, November 1946, no. 38 (illustrated).
Strasbourg, Château des Rohan, La grande aventure du XXe siècle, June - September 1963, no. 107 (illustrated).
Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum, Pierre Bonnard, September - October 1967, no. 52 (illustrated, titled 'Ankerpladsen', dated '1924-1925').
Geneva, Galerie Krugier et Cie., Bonnard, June 1969, no. 18 (illustrated p. 13, dated 'circa 1924').

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