About This Artwork

Pierre Bonnard
French, 1867-1947

Still Life: Preparation for Lunch, 1940

Gouache, with touches of watercolor and graphite on cream wove paper
499 x 650 mm
Signed recto, lower left, in brush and purple gouache: "Bonnard"
Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection, 1943.89

© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Decatur, Art Center, "Masterpieces of European and American Art," March 4–25, 1945, p. 4, cat. 1.

Museum of Modern Art, "Pierre Bonnard," May 11–September 6, 1948, p. 124 (ill.), cat. 92; traveled to the Cleveland Museum of Art, March 3–April 11, 1948.

New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 150.

Palm Beach, Fla., Society of Four Arts, "Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," January 5–27, 1974, cat. 2.

Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 78 (ill.).

Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 164-165, cat. 79 (ill.).

London, Hayward Gallery, "Bonnard at Le Bosquet," June 23–August 29, 1994, pp. 81 (ill.), cat. 36, 128; traveled to Newcastle, Laing Art Gallery, September 9–October 30, 1994.

Publication History

The Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1952), n.p. (ill.).

Charles Terrasse, “Le Dessin de Bonnard,” L’Œil 167 (November 1968), n.p.

Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979).

Ownership History

David-Weill, Paris [Paris 1976]. Sold by Valentine Dudensing, New York, to the Art Institute, 1943.