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PIERRE BONNARD (1867-1947)

Lot 59
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ID 1163386
Lot 59 | PIERRE BONNARD (1867-1947)
Estimate value
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PIERRE BONNARD (1867-1947)

Jeunes filles et chiens ou Les Demoiselles Natanson ou Les Quatre Jeunes Filles

signed ‘Bonnard’ (upper right)

oil on canvas

48 ¾ x 55 1⁄8 in. (124 x 140 cm.)

Painted in 1910





Provenance

Alexandre Natanson, Paris, by whom acquired from the artist; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 16 May 1929, lot 89. 

Galerie Gérard Frères, Paris, by whom acquired at the above sale. 

(Probably) Etienne Bignou, Paris.

Private collection, Zurich, by 1947, until at least 1955.

Wildenstein & Co. Inc., New York, by 1961. 

Lita Annenberg Hazen, New York, by whom acquired from the above in 1966, and thence by descent; sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 1 May 1996, lot 15. 

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

A. Fontainas, Bonnard: Les albums d'art Druet XX, Paris, 1928 (titled ‘Intimité’). 

L.-M. Lang, La Cote des Tableau ou Annuaire des Ventes de Tableaux, Dessins, Aquarelles, Pastels, Gouaches, Miniatures, vol. XI, Tous les Prix des Ventes de l'Année Octobre 1928 - fin Juillet 1929, Paris, 1929, p. 52. 

A. Page, Le collectionneurs de peintures modernes, Paris, 1930, p. 252. 

R. Édouard-Joseph, Dictionnaire Biographique des Artistes Contemporains, 1910-1930, vol. I, A-E, Paris, 1930, p. 161. 

L. Hautecoeur, Littérature et Peinture en France du XVIIe au XXe Siècle. Avec planches hors texte, Paris, 1942, pl. XXXVIII, no. 21, pp. 242-243 & 322 (illustrated; titled 'Intimité').

T. Natanson, Le Bonnard que je propose, Geneva, 1951 (illustrated pl. 41). 

A. Vaillant, ‘Livret de famille’ in L’Oeil, Paris, December 1956, p. 34 (illustrated). 

A. Vaillant, Bonnard ou le bonheur de voir, Neuchâtel, 1965, p. 61 (illustrated). 

F. Russoli, Pierre Bonnard, Milan, 1966, pl. VII (illustrated; titled 'Las señoritas Natanson'). 

J. & H. Dauberville, Bonnard: Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, vol. II, 1906-1919, Paris, 1968, no. 593, p. 186 (illustrated p. 187).

G. Groom, Edouard Vuillard: Painter - Decorator, Patrons and Projects, 1892-1912, New Haven & London, 1993, pl. 106, p. 63 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Paris, Galerie E. Druet, Tableaux de Pierre Bonnard de 1891 à 1922, April 1924, no. 28 (dated '1903').

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Pierre Bonnard, June - July 1947, no. 5, p. 6 (titled 'De vier meisjes'; dated '1898').

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Pierre Bonnard, June - July 1949, no. 32, p. 19 (illustrated pl. 2; titled 'Les enfants Terrasse' and dated ‘1899’). 

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Bonnard, 1953, no. 43 (titled 'De vier dochters Natanson in interieur').

Lyon, Musée de Lyon, Bonnard, Festival de Lyon Charbonnieres, 1954, no. 14. (titled 'Les enfants Terrasse'; dated '1900').

Milan, Palazzo della Permanente, Pierre Bonnard, April - May 1955, no. 16 (illustrated). 

Basel, Kunsthalle, Pierre Bonnard, May - July 1955, no. 32, p. 22 (illustrated). 

Buenos Aires, Galerie Wildenstein & Co. Inc., Bonnard, July - September 1965, no. 17, pp. 19 & 32 (illustrated p. 32; titled 'La famille Natanson'). 

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Pierre Bonnard, January - March 1966, no. 70, p. 43.
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