About This Artwork

Pierre Bonnard
French, 1867-1947

Woman Bathing, c. 1942

Gouache, with graphite on ivory wove paper
263 x 326 mm
Signed recto, lower center, in graphite: "Bonnard"
Gift of Mary and Leigh Block, 1955.492

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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

London, Hayward Gallery, "Bonnard at Le Bosquet," June 23–August 29, 1994, pp. 92 (ill.), cat. 44, 129; traveled to Newcastle, Laing Art Gallery, September 9–October 30, 1994.

Publication History

Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 9, no. 1B4.

Ownership History

Sold by Richard Zinser, New York, to the Art Institute, 1955.