Pierre Bonnard
Still Life, 1939
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Oil on canvas, 53,3 x 52,7 cm
signed lower left: Bonnard
Inv.-no. MB-Bon-01
Bonnard once described himself as “the last of the Impressionists”. In his works, he combined borrowings from Claude Monet’s painting with the Fauvists’ intense coloration. Due to the distorted perspective and the narrow cropping of the pictorial field, the modest still life appears strangely oneiric.
Permanent loan, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1990–2022
The William S. Paley Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 2–April 7, 1992; Indianapolis Museum of Art, September 11–November 15, 1992; Seattle Art Museum, December 17, 1992–February 7, 1993; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February 28–May 16, 1993; San Diego Museum of Art, June 9, 1993–September 26, 1993; Baltimore Museum of Art, October 31, 1993–January 9, 1994; New Orleans Museum of Art, February 6–April 17, 1994, no. 6
The William S. Paley Collection: A Taste for Modernism, de Young Museum, San Francisco, September 15–December 30, 2012; Portland Museum of Art, May 2–September 8, 2013; Fine Arts Museum, Quebec, October 10, 2013–January 5, 2014; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, March 15–July 7, 2014, no. 6
n.d., Gaston Bernheim de Villers, Monte-Carlo, purchased from the artist
n.d., Sam Salz, Inc., New York, acquired from the above
1954–1990, William S. Paley, New York, acquired from the above
1990–2022, William S. Paley Foundation, acquired by bequest from the above, on permanent loan to the Museum of Modern Art, New York
November 14, 2022, Sotheby’s, New York, Modern Evening Auction, lot 110, consigned by the above
Gaston Bernheim de Villers, Little Tales of Great Artists, Paris 1949, ill. n. p.
The William S. Paley Collection, exh. cat. The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1992, no. 6, p. 12, ill. p. 13.
The William S. Paley Collection: A Taste for Modernism, exh. cat. The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1992, no. 6, p. 12, ill. p. 13 (revised edition 2012).
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