
Property of a Gentleman
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