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PIERRE BONNARD Paintings for sale (1867-1947)
Vase of flowers
sign? "Bonnard" (bottom right) oil on canvas
77.5 x 58 cm.
Painted around 1914-15
Signed lower right; oil on canvas; 30.1 / 2 x 22.7 / 8 in .; painted circa 1914-15.
900,000 - 1,200,000 €
ORIGIN
Probably Jos Hessel, Paris.
Fernand Javal, Paris (probably acquired aupre? S of the father, in 1928).
Auction, Piasa, Paris, Drouot, June 23, 1999, lot 49.
Private Collection, France (acquired during this sale).
EXHIBITIONS
New York, Knoedler Galleries, Flowers by French Painters, November 1932, no.21.
Paris, Bernheim-Jeune gallery, Retrospective exhibition Bonnard, May-July 1950, p.23, no. 51 (wrongly dated 1928).
Munich, Haus der Kunst and Paris, Museum of the Orangerie, Pierre Bonnard: centenary of his birth, October 1966 - April 1967, n. pag., no.81 (illustrated? title? Flowers of the Fields, date to about 1916).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
J. and H. Dauberville, Bonnard, catalog raisonne? of the painted work, Paris, 1969, vol. II, p. 325, no. 785 (illustrated?).

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