Still Life: Preparation for Lunch

Prints and Drawings

1940

Pierre Bonnard
French, 1867-1947

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Pierre Bonnard
Title: Still Life: Preparation for Lunch
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.: 1930–1947
Medium: Gouache, with touches of watercolor and graphite on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower left, in brush and purple gouache: "Bonnard"
Dimensions: 49.9 × 65 cm (19 11/16 × 25 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1943.89
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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).

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.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist’s Studio”, September 17, 2022 - January 16, 2023.

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

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