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Property of a Gentleman

Pierre Bonnard

Femme à la lampe or La Lampe verte or La Couseuse

Auction Closed

March 7, 03:05 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Gentleman

Pierre Bonnard

1867 - 1947


Femme à la lampe or La Lampe verte or La Couseuse

signed Bonnard (lower left)

oil on paper, mounted on canvas

45.7 by 60.9 cm. 18 by 24 in.

Framed: 73 by 87.6 cm. 28 ¾ by 34 ½ in.

Executed in 1912.

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired in 1912)

Art Moderne, Lucerne (acquired in 1917)

Eugène Laffont, Paris (acquired in 1920)

Georges Bernheim, Paris

Galerie de l'Elysée, Paris

Aimé Maeght, Paris (acquired in 1947)

André Meyer, New York (acquired in 1950)

Sotheby's, London, 25 November 1959, lot 65 (consigned by the above)

O'Hana Gallery, London

David Landau, Paris

Mr and Mrs Samuel J. Lefrak, New York

Acquired in 2018 by the present owner

London, O’Hana Gallery, Paintings and Sculpture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 1960, no. 1, illustrated

London, O’Hana Gallery, Summer exhibition. Paintings and sculpture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 1962, no. 1, illustrated (dated 1905)

Gustave Coquiot, Bonnard, Paris, 1922, p. 54 (titled Femme cousant)

Fançois-Joachim Beer et al., Pierre Bonnard, Marseille, 1947, pl. 48, pp. 68, 166 (titled La Couseuse)

Thadée Natanson, Le Bonnard que je propose, Geneva, 1951, fig. 18 (titled Femme à la Lampe, 1899)

Heinrich Rumpel, Bonnard, Bern, 1952, pl. 10, pp. 14, 15, 17 (titled Die Lampe, 1899)

Exh. Cat., Kunsthaus Zurich, Sammlung Emil G Bührle, 1958, no. 259, p. 146 (dated circa 1905)

Adrian Bury, "Round about the Galleries, European Masters," in The Connoisseur, vol. CXLVI, September 1960, p. 53

Jean and Henri Dauberville, Bonnard, 1906-1918, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, vol. II, Paris, 1968, no. 687, p. 255, illustrated