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BONNARD, Pierre (1867-)

"THE YELLOW SCREEN"

Oil: 53-1/2 x 27-1/2"

Signed upper left: "Bonnard"

Painted ca. 1917.

Nude figure, highlights on the shoulder and hip, standing in the center beside a light mustard yellow screen patterned with rose flowers at left. To the right a striped and paneled wall of brilliant blues, greens and oranges, and rose flowered carpet. In the foreground, a table.

Collections: Hessel, Paris
Frank Crowninshield
Private Collection, New York
Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc.

Reproduced: Gustave Coquiot "Bonnard" 1922
"Formes", No.8, October 1930, "The Lyricism of Bonnard" by Jean Cassou, Fig.6

Bibliography: In NEW YORK TIMES, May 16, 1948, p.8x, article by Howard Devree "1867-Bonnard-1947"

Exhibited: "Exposition d'Art Internationale", Venice, No.237

"Painting in Paris", Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1930, No.5 (reproduced in the catalogue)

"Modern European Art", Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1933

"Bonnard-Vuillard", Institute of Modern Art, Boston, October 5 - November 11, 1944, #14

"20th Century French Paintings", Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, December 1944 (later at Cincinnati & St. Louis) No.6

"The Nude in Art", Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, January 1 - February 3, 1946, #4

"Pierre Bonnard", Cleveland Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art, New York. 1948. #34