
Art Institute of Chicago
The Seine at Vernonnet
Pierre Bonnard · c. 1930
Provenance
Ownership history
- Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, by 1933 [photo no. 8358, June 1933]. Cahen, by 1937 [Paris 1937]; sold through Sam Salz, New York to the Art Institute of Chicago with funds from Clyde M. Carr, May 14, 1962.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition Pierre Bonnard, June 15–23, 1933, p. 1 (ill.), cat. 13.
- Paris, Petit Palais, Les Maitres de l’art indépendent, 1895-1937, June–October 1937, p. 60, cat. 12, as Verdure à Vernon, 1930.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, Bonnard and His Environment, October 7–November 29, 1964, pp. 80 (ill.), 108, cat. 47, as The Seine at Vernon, 1930; traveled to Chicago, Art Institute, January 8–February 28, 1965; and Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, March 31–May 30, 1965.
- Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Pierre Bonnard, Das Glück zu Malen, January 23–April 12, 1993, p. 146 (ill.), cat. 42, as La Seine à Vernon, c. 1930.
Literature
Published references
- Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Pierre Bonnard, exh. cat. (Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1933), p. 1 (ill.), cat. 13.
- George, Waldemar, “Defense and Depiction of the French Boureoisie, Bonnard and the Charm of Life,” Formes 33 (1933), n.p. (ill.), as Verdure.
- Besson, George, La Peinture française au XXe siècle, vol. 1 (Paris: Les Éditions Braun & Cie, 1934), n.p. (ill.), pl. 19, as La Seine a Vernon, 1933.
- Escholier, Raymond, La Peinture française, XXe siècle (Paris: Librarie Floury, 1937), n.p. (ill.), as Verdure (Vernon, 1930).
- Petit Palais, Les Maitres de l’art independent, 1895-1937, exh. cat. (Paris: Éditions Arts & Métiers Graphiques, 1937), p. 60, cat. 12, as Verdure à Vernon.
- Beer, François-Joachim, Pierre Bonnard (Marseille: Éditions Françaises d’Art, 1947), pp. 124 (ill.), n.p., pl. 104, as La Seine à Vernon.
- Natanson, Thadée, Le Bonnard que je propose, 1867–1947; tentatives (Geneva: Pierre Cailler, 1951), n.p. (ill.), pl. 54, as La Seine à Vernonet, 1920.
- Art Institute of Chicago, “Report of the Director of Fine Arts,” Annual Report, 1961-1962 (Chicago: Art Institute, 1962), pp. 2 (ill.), 13, as The Seine at Vernon, 1930.
- Soby, James Thrall, Bonnard and His Environment, exh. cat. (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1964), pp. 80 (ill.), 108, cat. 47, as The Seine at Vernon, 1930.
- Dauberville, Jean and Henry, Bonnard, catalog raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, 1920-1939, vol. 3 (Paris: Éditions Bernheim-Jeune, 1965), pp. 337 (ill.), 338, no. 1422, photo 8358, as La Seine à Vernon ou Verdure, Vernon, c. 1930.
- Maxon, John, “Some Recent Acquisitions,” Apollo 84 (September 1966), p. 221 (ill.), fig. 10, as The Seine at Vernon, 1930.
- Speyer, A. James, “Twentieth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture,” Apollo 84 (September 1966), p. 225, as The Seine at Vernon, 1930.
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