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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition Pierre Bonnard, June 15–23, 1933, p. 1 (ill.), cat. 13.

Paris, Petit Palais, Les Maitres de l’art indépendent, 1895-1937, June–October 1937, p. 60, cat. 12, as Verdure à Vernon, 1930.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Bonnard and His Environment, October 7–November 29, 1964, pp. 80 (ill.), 108, cat. 47, as The Seine at Vernon, 1930; traveled to Chicago, Art Institute, January 8–February 28, 1965; and Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, March 31–May 30, 1965.

Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Pierre Bonnard, Das Glück zu Malen, January 23–April 12, 1993, p. 146 (ill.), cat. 42, as La Seine à Vernon, c. 1930.

Publication History

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Pierre Bonnard, exh. cat. (Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1933), p. 1 (ill.), cat. 13.

George, Waldemar, “Defense and Depiction of the French Boureoisie, Bonnard and the Charm of Life,” Formes 33 (1933), n.p. (ill.), as Verdure.

Besson, George, La Peinture française au XXe siècle, vol. 1 (Paris: Les Éditions Braun & Cie, 1934), n.p. (ill.), pl. 19, as La Seine a Vernon, 1933. [photo courtesy of Durand-Ruel]

Escholier, Raymond, La Peinture française, XXe siècle (Paris: Librarie Floury, 1937), n.p. (ill.), as Verdure (Vernon, 1930). [Bernheim-Jeune is under image]

Petit Palais, Les Maitres de l’art independent, 1895-1937, exh. cat. (Paris: Éditions Arts & Métiers Graphiques, 1937), p. 60, cat. 12, as Verdure à Vernon. [M. Cahen]

Beer, François-Joachim, Pierre Bonnard (Marseille: Éditions Françaises d’Art, 1947), pp. 124 (ill.), n.p., pl. 104, as La Seine à Vernon. [no owner listed]

Natanson, Thadée, Le Bonnard que je propose, 1867–1947; tentatives (Geneva: Pierre Cailler, 1951), n.p. (ill.), pl. 54, as La Seine à Vernonet, 1920. [no owner, credits]

Art Institute of Chicago, “Report of the Director of Fine Arts,” Annual Report, 1961-1962 (Chicago: Art Institute, 1962), pp. 2 (ill.), 13, as The Seine at Vernon, 1930.

Soby, James Thrall, Bonnard and His Environment, exh. cat. (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1964), pp. 80 (ill.), 108, cat. 47, as The Seine at Vernon, 1930.

Dauberville, Jean and Henry, Bonnard, catalog raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, 1920-1939, vol. 3 (Paris: Éditions Bernheim-Jeune, 1965), pp. 337 (ill.), 338, no. 1422, photo 8358, as La Seine à Vernon ou Verdure, Vernon, c. 1930.

Maxon, John, “Some Recent Acquisitions,” Apollo 84 (September 1966), p. 221 (ill.), fig. 10, as The Seine at Vernon, 1930.

Speyer, A. James, “Twentieth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture,” Apollo 84 (September 1966), p. 225, as The Seine at Vernon, 1930.

Cunningham, Charles C. and John Maxon, Anselmo Carini, Instuito de arte de Chicago, El mundo de los museos (Buenos Aires: Éditorial Codex, S.A., 1967), pp. 12 (ill.), illust. 39, 62 (ill.), no. 4, as El Sena en Vernon.

Speyer, A. James and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 33, no. 1B6, as La Seine à Vernon, 1930.

Kruszunski, Anette and Joachim Kaak, Pierre Bonnard, Das Glück zu Malen, exh. cat. (Dusseldorf: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 1993), p. 146 (ill.), cat. 42, as La Seine à Vernon, 1930.

Ownership History

Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, by 1933 [photo no. 8358, June 1933]. Cahen, by 1937 [Paris 1937]. Sam Salz, Inc., New York, by 1962 [Art Institute receipt RX3931, May 14, 1962]; sold to the Art Institute with funds from Clyde M. Carr, May 14, 1962.