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Boulevard, from Some Aspects of Paris Life

© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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Date:

1896

Artist:

Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867-1947)
printed by Auguste Clot (French, 1858-1936)
published by Ambroise Vollard (French, 1867-1939)

About this artwork

In this print, Pierre Bonnard incorporated the horizontal format, vertically divided pictorial space, and raised picture plane that are commonly found in prints by Japanese artists such as Katsushika Hokusai. In an 1882 essay published in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, French critic Théodore Duret wrote that Japanese landscape style was “seen from high above, with a perspective which lifts distant planes up to the top of the picture and makes peo­ple and objects stand out not against the background of sky, but against the background of land­scape itself.”

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Pierre Bonnard

Title

Boulevard, from Some Aspects of Paris Life

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1896

Medium

Lithograph in gray-green, charcoal gray, yellow and orange, with handcoloring in black and red crayon, on ivory China paper

Dimensions

Image: 17.5 × 43 cm (6 15/16 × 16 15/16 in.); Sheet: 40 × 53 cm (15 3/4 × 20 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Print and Drawing Club

Reference Number

1952.1115

Copyright

© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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