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Sold with a photo-certificate from Guy-Patrice Dauberville dated Paris, le 22 septembre 1998.
It is likely that the woman depicted so intimately in the present drawing is Bonnard's wife and muse Marthe de Meligny. She is said to have spent several hours a day in her bath, and according to Charles Terrasse, the artist's nephew, "it is [Marthe] who appears in his pictures, early and late, more than anyone else: a woman of beautiful bodily proportions and peculiar grace, fleeting and free, of which the great observer's eye would always catch a gesture, a movement, or an undulation of light" (C. Terrasse, Bonnard and his Environment, exh. cat., New York 1964, p. 16).
It is likely that the woman depicted so intimately in the present drawing is Bonnard's wife and muse Marthe de Meligny. She is said to have spent several hours a day in her bath, and according to Charles Terrasse, the artist's nephew, "it is [Marthe] who appears in his pictures, early and late, more than anyone else: a woman of beautiful bodily proportions and peculiar grace, fleeting and free, of which the great observer's eye would always catch a gesture, a movement, or an undulation of light" (C. Terrasse, Bonnard and his Environment, exh. cat., New York 1964, p. 16).