Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947)

Nu, clairage de lampe (Nude, illuminated by lamp)

Details
Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947)
Nu, clairage de lampe (Nude, illuminated by lamp)
signed 'Bonnard' (lower left)
oil on canvas
29 x 15 in. (74.9 x 40 cm.)
Painted in 1911
Provenance
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired directly from the artist, 1911)
Roderic O'Conor, Paris
Jacques Rodrigues-Henriques, Paris
Adelaide Milton de Groot, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acquired through the Adelaide Milton de Groot Research Bequest, 1967)
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York (acquired from the above, 1972)
Osaka Formes Gallery, Osaka; sale, Christie's, London, 2 July 1974, lot 96 (acquired from the above by the present owner)
Literature
G. Coquiot, Bonnard, Paris, 1922, pl. 19 (illustrated).
S. Oka and R. Yanagi, Bonnard, Tokyo, 1940, p. 75, no. 134 (illustrated).
J. and H. Dauberville, Bonnard, catalogue raisonn de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 1968, vol. II (1906-1991), p. 238, no. 663 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Hartford, The Wadsworth Atheneum, Twentieth Century Painting from Three Cities: New York, New Haven and Hartford, October-December 1955, no. 5.
Palm Beach, Society of the Four Arts, Pierre Bonnard, January 1957, no. 10.
Nagoya, Japan, Osaka Formes Gallery, Anniversary Exhibition, October 1973, no. 41.