LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

49.33 in. (125.30 cm.) (height) by 52.91 in. (134.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'Bonnard' (lower left)

Exhibited:

Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Bonnard: Oeuvres récentes, June-July 1912, no. 20. Kunsthaus Zürich, Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, May-July 1932, p. 22, no. 75 (with inverted dimensions and dated 1917). Venice, XIXa Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d'Arte, 1934, p. 284, no. 39 (titled Tavola da giardino). Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Hommage à Bonnard, May-July 1956, no. 12 (dated 1908). Paris, Galerie Jean-Claude et Jacques Bellier, Bonnard: Peintures, November-December 1960, p. 23, no. 25 (illustrated; titled Table de jardin). London, Royal Academy of Arts, Pierre Bonnard, January-March 1966, p. 59, no. 189 (titled La table de jardin and dated 1926). New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (on extended loan, August-October 2001).

Literature:

G. Coquiot, Bonnard, Paris, 1922, p. 47 (illustrated). H. Rumpel, Bonnard, Bern, 1952, p. 31, no. 32 (illustrated). "Cinquante Bonnard" in Le Monde, 18 May 1956, p. 18 (dated 1908). G. Hilaire, "Féerie intérieure" in Dimanche-Matin, 10 June 1956. J. and H. Dauberville, Bonnard: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1906-1919, Paris, 1968, vol. II, p. 263, no. 698 (illustrated). A. Davis, "Sutton Place Townhouse: Italian Designer Blends Fine Art and Décor" in Architectural Digest, December 1977, pp. 38-47 (illustrated in color in situ in Drue Heinz's home, p. 38). M. Terrasse, Bonnard: Du dessin au tableau, Paris, 1996, p. 91 (illustrated in color). A. Kostenevich, Bonnard and the Nabis, New York, 2005, p. 108 (illustrated in color, p. 111). V. Serrano, Entre chiens & chats: Bonnard et l'animalité, exh. cat., Musée Bonnard, Paris, 2016, pp. 66 and 153 (illustrated in color, p. 68, fig. 21).

Provenance:

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Paris (acquired from the artist, 15 June 1912). Gaston Bernheim de Villers, Paris (acquired from the above, 1927). Acquired from the family of the above by the late owner, January 1961.