Study for "Gamme majeure" (Major Scale), 1891/1893

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volume Title

Petit Solfège illustré (Little Illustrated Solfeggio)

Medium

brush and pen and black ink with green watercolor over graphite

Dimensions

overall: 20.6 x 28.3 cm (8 1/8 x 11 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased for the Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection

Accession Number

2014.83.1

Artists / Makers

Pierre Bonnard (artist) French, 1867 - 1947

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Inscription

upper left in pen and black ink: 8e; upper right in pen and black ink: 8; across top in pen and black ink: CHAPITRE II _ / ECHELLE - GAMME - TONS - DEMI-TONS; center in pen and black ink: Qu'est-ce que la gamme / C'est une portion ... [text continues for 13 lines]; lower right in graphite: 48

Provenance

Pieter Dietsch, New York; by descent; (Artemis Fine Arts, London); Ira and Virginia Jackson, Houston; (Hartle Properties, Inc., Houston); purchased by NGA in 2014

Associated Names

Artemis Fine Arts Inc.
Dietsch, Peter
Hartle Properties, Inc.
Jackson, Ira, Dr.

Exhibition History

2000: Prints Abound: Paris in the 1890s, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001, 72, 169, no. 110 (color).