Christie's Head of Impressionist & Modern Art Conor Jordan discusses Pierre Bonnard's Le petit déjeuner. Inspired by Henri Matisse's brave explorations of form and color, Bonnard in his later years embarked on his own exploration of the interior scene and adopted Matisse's window motif for his own, adding even bolder and more creative experimentations with color and pattern. Previously featured in museum retrospectives of the artist’s work at the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, this radiant 1936 painting has been in the private collection of the late arts patron Evelyn Annenberg Jaffe Hall since it was acquired more than sixty years ago. (RT: 2:29)
20 April 2011Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale
4 May 2011 New York, Rockefeller Plaza.
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