Rue sous la neige

Details

PIERRE BONNARD (1867-1947)
Rue sous la neige
signed 'Bonnard' (lower left)
oil on canvas
13 3⁄8 x 18 1⁄8 in. (34.1 x 46 cm.)
Painted circa 1898

Provenance

Galerie Druet, Paris.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Paris (acquired from the above).
Gaston Bernheim de Villers, Paris.
Paul Rosenberg & Co., Paris and New York (by 1948).
E. and A. Silberman Galleries, Inc., New York.
Acquired from the above by the Phillips family, May 1956.

Literature

L. Werth, Bonnard, Paris, 1945 (illustrated, pl. 12).
J. and H. Dauberville, Bonnard: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1888-1905, Paris, 1992, vol. I, p. 197, no. 167 (illustrated).

Exhibited

New York, Wildenstein & Co. Inc., Pierre Bonnard, March 1934, no. 1.
Cleveland Museum of Art and New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Pierre Bonnard, March-April 1948, no. 23.
Munich, Haus der Kunst and Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Pierre Bonnard, October 1966-April 1967, no. 56 (dated 1907).
New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Pierre Bonnard: Landscapes, November-December 1997.

Further Details

After the pre-sale exhibition, this lot will be transferred to storage in Delaware and will be available for shipment from Delaware. Please note that title to the lot will transfer to the buyer in accordance with the Conditions of Sale while the lot is in storage in Delaware. Contact Christie’s Client Service team at +1 212 636 2000 for further details.

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Lot Essay

"[We] decided to pick up the research of the Impressionists, and to attempt to take it further,. When we discovered Impressionism a little later, it came as a new enthusiasm, a sense of revelation and liberation. Impressionism brought us freedom"
— Pierre Bonnard

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