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La Seine à Vernon, 1930

Signed lower left Bonnard

On the back: on the stretcher, a printed label dated 1933 with reference number (31); a printed label dated 1935 with reference number, artist's name and title; traces of an old exhibition label in French; a label from the art transport company Royer of Paris with the artist's name, reference number (03013) and date (18/12/84); stamps Douane centrale exportation Paris; on the canvas, stamps Douane centrale exportation Paris; on the frame, reference numbers.



Bonnard's career was extensive, spanning more than sixty years and exploring the most diverse realms of art.
He tackled every subject and expressed himself with ease and conviction in every genre.
He painted portraits, landscapes, seascapes, and still lifes. He enjoyed painting interiors, depicting village festivals and scenes of Parisian life. He created large-scale decorations. He was a lithographer, etcher, and book illustrator.
Throughout his life, his restless imagination continued to search for new panoramas, horizons, and unknown skies, pausing here and there, always fascinated by an unexpected beauty he could discover in Auvergne as in Bourgogne, in Provence no less than in Normandy, always motivated by a universal sympathy for beings and things.
oil on canvas
cm 73,5 x 45,5 - framed cm 97,5 x 70
Attached is a declaration of authenticity on photograph by Robert Schmit n. 1739, dated Paris, 17 December 1984.
Origin:
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (purchased directly from Bonnard in October 1930);

Herman Gustaf Turitz Collection, Göteborg;

Galerie Schmit, Paris.
Exhibitions:
Exhibition of Paintings by Bonnard, Wildenstein & Co, New York, 1-24 March 1934;

Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) i svensk ago, Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, 1947;

Lumières sur la Peinture, 19ème et 20ème siècles, Galerie Schmit, Paris, May – July 1983.
Bibliography:
G. Bazin, Les Nabis et le groupe Bonnard-Vuillard-Roussel, part of Chapter III of L'Histoire de l'Art contemporain, in L'Amour de l'Art, 14th year, no. 4, April 1933, p. 87 (illustrated on p. 88, fig. 96);

Exhibition of Paintings by Bonnard, catalog of the exhibition held at Wildenstein & Co., New York, March 1-24, 1934, no. 35;

Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) i svensk ago, catalog of the exhibition held at the Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, 1947, no. 25 (illustrated);

J. and H. Dauberville, Bonnard / Catalogue Raisonne / De L'Oeuvre Peint / 1920-1939, Paris, 1973, Volume III, p. 338, no. 1423 (illustrated);

Lumières sur la Peinture, 19ème et 20ème siècles, exhibition catalog held at Galerie Schmit, Paris, May–July 1983, no. 3 (illustrated).
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