ID 818821 
Lot 121  | PIERRE BONNARD (1867-1947)
Estimate value
$ 250 000 – 350 000 
Misia au piano (Portrait de Misia Natanson)
oil on canvas
18 1/8 x 15 3/8 in. (46.1 x 39.1 cm.)
Painted circa 1902
Provenance
Misia Sert, Paris (acquired from the artist).
Paul (Boulos) Ristelhueber, Paris (gift from the above).
Frank Perls Gallery, Beverly Hills (acquired from the above, July 1955).
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (acquired from the above, September 1955).
Rosita Winston, New York (acquired from the above, March 1958).
D. Liberman, United States.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 17 November 1983, lot 134.
Private collection, New York (December 1985); sale, Sotheby's, London, 6 February 2007, lot 308.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty at the above sale.
Literature
M. Sert, Misia, Paris, 1952 (illustrated in color on the cover).
M. Budberg, Two or Three Muses: The Memoirs of Misia Sert, London, 1953 (illustrated; with incorrect cataloguing).
J. and H. Dauberville, Bonnard: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, révisé et augmenté, Paris, 1992, vol. I, p. 266, no. 277 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Portraits français, June 1945, no. 153.
Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, Bonnard, October-November 1947, p. 3, no. 19.
Paris, Musée d'Orsay and Le Cannet, Musée Bonnard, Misia: Reine de Paris, June 2012-January 2013, p. 174, no. 80 (illustrated in color, p. 134).
Paris, Musée d'Orsay; Madrid, Fundación MAPFRE and San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Pierre Bonnard: Painting Arcadia, March 2015-May 2016, p. 323 (illustrated in color, p. 205, fig. 164).
Cleveland Museum of Art and Portland Museum of Art, Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900, July 2021-January 2022, p. 161, no. 87 (illustrated in color).
| Artist: | Pierre Bonnard (1867 - 1947) | 
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Oil on canvas, Painted | 
| Medium: | Canvas, Textile | 
| Art style: | Modern art | 
| Genre: | Portrait | 
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe | 
| Auction house category: | Paintings | 
| Artist: | Pierre Bonnard (1867 - 1947) | 
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Oil on canvas, Painted | 
| Medium: | Canvas, Textile | 
| Art style: | Modern art | 
| Genre: | Portrait | 
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe | 
| Auction house category: | Paintings | 
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