Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947)
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Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947)

Le thé, bouquet de violettes

Details
Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947)
Le thé, bouquet de violettes
signed 'Bonnard' (lower left)
oil on canvas
33 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. (80.5 x 59.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1907
Provenance
Madame Hendrick, Brussels.
Matthiesen Gallery, London.
Reid & Lefevre Gallery, London, 1942.
Mayor Gallery, London, 1949.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 21 April 1971, lot 58.
Private Collection.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1974.
Literature
J. & H. Dauberville, Bonnard, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, vol. IV, 1940-1947, Paris, 1974, no. 1915, p. 265 (illustrated p. 264).
Exhibited
London, Reid & Lefevre Gallery, 20th Century French Paintings, November 1943, no. 4 (titled 'Le coin de l'atelier').
London, The Lefevre Gallery, Bonnard and his French Contemporaries, June - July 1947, no. 9 (titled `Nature morte'; dated circa 1904).
Winterthur, Kunstmuseum, Pierre Bonnard, Gemälde und Zeichnungen, March - June 2004, no. 22, p. 246 (illustrated p. 47).
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