Spring Frolic

Modern Art

c. 1904/06

Pierre Bonnard
French, 1867-1947

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Pierre Bonnard
Title: Spring Frolic
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.: 1899–1911
Medium: Bronze
Inscriptions: signed: "Bonnard"
Dimensions: 12.7 × 81.2 × 50.8 cm (5 × 32 × 20 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Grant J. Pick
Reference Number: 1963.927
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Art Institute, The Grant J. Pick Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute, 1970), p. 14 (ill.), as Spring Frolic, c. 1904-05.
Anne Pingeot, Bonnard Sculpteur: catalogue raisonné (Paris: N. Chaudon and Musée d’Orsay, 2006), pp. 16, 72, fig. 61, 74 (ill.), 75-79, as Surtout, 1902.
Rebecca A. Rabinow (ed.) and Douglas Druick, Ann Dumas, Gloria Groom, Anne Roquebert, Gary Tinterow, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, exh. cat. (New York and New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 94 (fig. 104, ill.), 333 (cat. 21a, ill.), 334, as Surtout de Table, c. 1902.

New York, Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, Bourdelle: Sculptures and Drawings, Nov. 13–Dec. 8, 1961.
Chicago, Art Institute, The Grant J. Pick Collection, June 20–Aug. 16, 1970, p. 14 (ill.), as Spring Frolic, c. 1904-05.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, Sept. 13–Jan. 7, 2007, pp. 94 (ill.), fig. 104, 333 (ill.), cat. 21a, 334, as Surtout de Table, c. 1902; traveled to Chicago, Art Institute, Feb. 17–May 13, 2007; and Paris, Musée d’Orsay, June 18–Sept. 16, 2007 (New York and Chicago only).

Possibly Ambroise Vollard (1866–1939), Paris [New York 2006]. Charles Slatkin, New York [New York 2006]; sold to Grant J. Pick (1910–1963), Chicago, by Dec. 12, 1963 [New York 2006]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 27, 1963.

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