The Seine at Vernonnet

Modern Art

c. 1930

Pierre Bonnard
French, 1867–1947

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Department: Modern Art

Artist: Pierre Bonnard
Title: The Seine at Vernonnet
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.: 1925–1935
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed, l.l.: "Bonnard"
Dimensions: 108 × 108 cm (42 1/2 × 42 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Clyde M. Carr Fund
Reference Number: 1962.357
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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.
Escholier, Raymond, La Peinture française, XXe siècle (Paris: Librarie Floury, 1937), n.p. (ill.), as Verdure (Vernon, 1930).
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.
Beer, François-Joachim, Pierre Bonnard (Marseille: Éditions Françaises d’Art, 1947), pp. 124 (ill.), n.p., pl. 104, as La Seine à Vernon.
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.
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.

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.

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

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