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Lot 3213* - A209 Art Impressionniste & Moderne - vendredi, 21. juin 2024, 17h00
PIERRE BONNARD
Provenance:
- With Bernheim-Jeune, acquired directly from the artist in 1927.
- With F. Valentine Dudensing Gallery, New York, acquired from the above gallery.
- Collection of Laughlin Phillips, Washington, thence to the descendents.
- Sale Sotheby's, New York, 6.5.2015, Lot 139.
- With Richard Green Gallery, London (label verso).
- Private collection, Spain.
Exhibited:
Northampton/Chicago 1932/33, Entering the Twentieth Century. Oil, watercolors and drawings, Smith College Museum of Art, November–December 1932/Art Institute of Chicago, June–November 1933.
Literature:
Jean und Henry Dauberville: Bonnard. Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Paris 1973, vol. III, 1920–1939, p. 298, no. 1367 (ill.).
The theme of the bustling big city with its busy people was a thing of the past; the artist is now drawn back to nature. His sense of color and light finds new nourishment in the surrounding hills and river landscape.
The painting makes us feel the silence and beauty of a morning by the river, not in the south of France, but in Normandy, on the banks of the Seine near Vernonnet, where Bonnard has also owned a house since 1912.
We do not perceive the shimmering heat of afternoon, but rather the still-muted light and colors of the morning twilight, during the "blue hour", as the title "matin bleu" suggests.
In an impressionistic manner, Bonnard captures the mood of this morning on the banks of the small river. The vibrant green of the bushes and grass in the foreground contrasts beautifully with the various shades of blue in the sky and water.
Color becomes light and vice versa, allowing the viewer to immerse themselves in this idyllic landscape.
«La couleur est la métamorphose de la matière en lumière.» (Jean Leymarie : Bonnard dans sa lumière, Frankreich 1978, p. 13).
CHF 200 000 / 300 000 | (€ 206 190 / 309 280)
Vendu pour CHF 206 250 (frais inclus)
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