Cats Playing

Prints and Drawings

c. 1904

Pierre Bonnard
French, 1867–1947

Pierre Bonnard explored domestic life in a number of works and media, including scenes of family pets. This relaxed composition—seemingly viewed from an intimate point of view—underscores the personal nature of Bonnard’s vision.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Pierre Bonnard
Title: Cats Playing
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.: c. 1904
Medium: Pastel, over charcoal, with stumping, on tan wove paper, edge-mounted to board
Inscriptions: Signed recto, upper right, in blue pastel: "Bonnard"
Dimensions: 47.8 × 52.7 cm (18 7/8 × 20 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.899
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 131, cat. 92 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 131, cat. 92 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” March 15 - June 15, 2014, no cat.

Professor Max Huggler, Switzerland, until c. 1950. Private collector; sold, Sotheby’s, London, Mar. 25, 1992, lot 19, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

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