Emile Bernard (1868-1941)
La campagne à Pont-Aven
signed 'Emile Bernard' (lower left)
watercolor, gouache and black Conté crayon on Japan paper laid down on paper
8 7/8 x 10 7/8 in. (22.4 x 27.5 cm.)
Executed in 1887
Provenance
Count Antoine de La Rochefoucauld, Paris.
Clément Altarriba, Paris.
Galerie Matignon, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, December 1996.
Literature
G. Thomas, "Emile Bernard," Arts, no. 48, January 1982, p. 11 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Muse´e du Prieure´, L'e´clatement de l'impressionnisme, 1982, p. 102, no. 14.
Muse´e de Pont-Aven, Aquarelles, pastels, dessins, objets de l'Ecole de Pont-Aven, June-September 1985, p. 35, no. 3 (illustrated, pp. 7 and 34).