LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Oil and pencil on board

Measurements:

13.87 in. (35.24 cm.) (height) by 10.63 in. (26.99 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed Bonnard and dated 94 (toward lower left); signed Bonnard and dated 94 (lower left); dedicated and signed A mon ami Cottet Bon. (lower right)

Exhibited:

Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, . Exposition de la collection Emil G. Bührle, 1958, no. 25. New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art & Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, . Bonnard and His Environment , 1964-65, no. 5, illustrated in the catalogue (titled . The Cottet Family

Literature:

Jean & Henry Dauberville, . Bonnard, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1888-1905 , vol. I, Paris, 1992, no. 67, illustrated p. 131

Provenance:

Charles Cottet, Paris (acquired from the artist). Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 10, 1950, lot 82. Galerie Jacques Dubourg, Paris (acquired at the above sale). Emil G. Bührle, Zurich (acquired from the above in 1953). Galerie Krugier & Cie., Paris. M. Knoedler & Co., Paris. Mme Brandolini, Paris (acquired from the above in 1969). Galerie Cazeau-Béraudière, Paris. Acquired from the above on December 6, 2005