
Art Institute of Chicago
Spring Frolic
Pierre Bonnard · c. 1904/06
Provenance
Ownership history
- Possibly Ambroise Vollard (1866–1939), Paris [New York 2006]. Charles Slatkin, New York [New York 2006]; sold to Grant J. Pick (1910–1963), Chicago, by Dec. 12, 1963 [New York 2006]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 27, 1963.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, Bourdelle: Sculptures and Drawings, Nov. 13–Dec. 8, 1961.
- Chicago, Art Institute, The Grant J. Pick Collection, June 20–Aug. 16, 1970, p. 14 (ill.), as Spring Frolic, c. 1904-05.
- New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, Sept. 13–Jan. 7, 2007, pp. 94 (ill.), fig. 104, 333 (ill.), cat. 21a, 334, as Surtout de Table, c. 1902; traveled to Chicago, Art Institute, Feb. 17–May 13, 2007; and Paris, Musée d’Orsay, June 18–Sept. 16, 2007 (New York and Chicago only).
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute, The Grant J. Pick Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute, 1970), p. 14 (ill.), as Spring Frolic, c. 1904-05.
- Anne Pingeot, Bonnard Sculpteur: catalogue raisonné (Paris: N. Chaudon and Musée d’Orsay, 2006), pp. 16, 72, fig. 61, 74 (ill.), 75-79, as Surtout, 1902.
- Rebecca A. Rabinow (ed.) and Douglas Druick, Ann Dumas, Gloria Groom, Anne Roquebert, Gary Tinterow, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, exh. cat. (New York and New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 94 (fig. 104, ill.), 333 (cat. 21a, ill.), 334, as Surtout de Table, c. 1902.
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