The Checkered Tablecloth

1. With Galerie Pétridès, Paris, by June 1943 [Paris 1943]. Jacques Lindon, New York, by Aug. 1948 [this and the following according to Block collection card, in curatorial file]; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block, Chicago, Aug. 1948; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 1988.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Galerie O. Pétridès, 18 Peintures de Bonnard, June 25–July 25, 1943, cat. 12, as Les fruits sur la table.
• Chicago, Art Insitute, Chicago Collectors, Sept. 20–Oct. 27, 1963, no cat. no., as Still Life, 1939.
• Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, 100 European Paintings & Drawings from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Leigh B. Block, May 4–June 11, 1967, cat. 28, as Still Life, c. 1939; Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, Sept. 21–Nov. 2, 1967; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Feb. 2–Apr. 11, 1968.
• Saint Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Bonnard dans sa lumière, July 12–Sept. 28, 1975, cat. 59, as Sur la nappe a carreaux, c. 1939.
• Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, Shinjuku, Pierre Bonnard, July 4–30, 1991, cat. 5, as Corbeille et assiette de fruits sur la nappe à carreaux rouges, c. 1939; Nara, Sogo Museum of Art, August 7–Sept. 1, 1991; Yokohama, Sogo Museum of Art, Sept. 7–Oct. 10, 1991; Fukuoka, Art Museum, Oct. 17–Nov. 10, 1991.
• Chicago, Arts Club, Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, 1916-1991, May 11–June 26, 1992, no cat. no., as The Checkered Tablecloth, 1939.
• Nagaoka, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago, cat. 40, as The Checkered Tablecloth, 1939, April 20–May 29, 1994; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994; Yokohama Museum of Art, Aug. 6–Sept. 25, 1994 (organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and Asahi Shumbun).
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pierre Bonnard: The Late Interiors, Jan. 27–April 19, 2009.
• London, Tate Modern, Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory, Jan.23–May 6, 2019, no cat. no., as The Checkered Tablecloth (Corbeille et assiette de fruits sur la nappe à carreaux rouges), 1939; Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, June 6–Sept. 22, 2019.
• New York, Acquavella Gallery, Bonnard: The Experience of Seeing, Apr. 12–May 26, 2023, no cat. no., as Corbeille et assiette de fruits sur la nappe à carreaux rouges [The Checkered Tablecloth].
• Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, Pierre Bonnard, June 9–Oct. 8, 2023, no cat. no.

• André Lhote, Bonnard, Seize Peintures, 1939-1943 (Paris: Les Éditions du Chêne, 1944), 1 (ill.), as Coin de Table, 1939.
• André Lhote, Bonnard, Seize Peintures, 1939-1943 (1944; repr., Paris: Les Éditions du Chêne, 1948), 6 (ill.).
• “Living with the Great,” Vogue 120 (October 1, 1952), 121 (ill.), as Fruits on a Checkered Tablecloth.
• “Chicago’s Fabulous Collectors Earmark Art for Institute,” Life 33, 17 (October 27, 1952), n.p. (ill.), as Still Life.
• Francine du Plessix, “The Flawless Eye: Mary and Leigh Block,” in The Collector in America (New York: A Studio Book, 1961), 109 (ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Collectors, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute, 1963), n.p., as Still Life, 1939.
• Jean and Henry Dauberville, Bonnard, catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, 1906-1919, vol. 3 (Paris: Éditions Bernheim-Jeune, 1965), 448 (ill.), no. 1575, as Corbeille et assiette de fruits sur la nappe à carreaux rouges, c. 1939.
• Francine du Plessix, “Collectors: Mary and Leigh Block,” Art in America 54, 5 (September-October 1966),69 (ill.), as Still Life of 1939.
• National Gallery of Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 100 European Paintings & Drawings from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Leigh B. Block, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1967), n.p. (ill.), cat. 28, as Still Life, c. 1939.
• Museum of Fine Arts, One Hundred European Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Leigh B. Block, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts), n.p. (ill.), cat. 29, as Still Life, c. 1939.
• Fondation Maeght, Bonnard dans sa lumière, exh. cat. (Paris: Maeght, 1975), 88, cat. 59, 89 (ill.), 118, as Sur la nappe a carreaux, c. 1939.
• Michel Terrasse, Bonnard et le Cannet (Paris: Herscher, 1987), 124, as Corbeille et assiette de fruits sur la nappe à carreaux, c. 1939.

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