Parallèlement

1900 (proofs stamped 1897)

Pierre Bonnard

Artist, French, 1867 - 1947

Paul Verlaine

Author, French, 1844 - 1896

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound proofs with 64 drawings in charcoal with a few marks in conté crayon and graphite; 2 uncut sheets of lithographs in pink and brown on China paper

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    book: 30.7 × 25.5 × 2.2 cm (12 1/16 × 10 1/16 × 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2014.112.34

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bouvet 1981, no. 73, proofs

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(H. P. Kraus, 1962); (Colin and Charlotte Franklin, Fine and Rare Books, Home Farm, Culham, Oxford, 1973); (sale, Kornfeld and Klipstein, Bern, 12 June 1974, no. 18); private collection; (John Baskett, London, 1975); Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; bequest of Paul Mellon [1907-1999] to NGA, with life interest retained for his wife, Rachel (Bunny) Lambert Mellon [1910-2014]; gift to NGA, 2014.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1991

  • Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. NGA, Washington, DC, 1991, 262-263 (entry by Virginia Tuttle Clayton).

2016

  • In Celebration of Paul Mellon, NGA, 2016.

Bibliography

1981

  • Bouvet, Francis. Bonnard: The Complete Graphic Work. New York: Rizzoli, 1981: no. 73, proofs.

1982

  • Ray, Gordon. The Art of the French Illustrated Book 1700 to 1914. New York, 1982: 505-506, under no. 383A.

1989

  • Pierre Bonnard: The Graphic Art. Exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1989: 168 (fig. 229, reproducing page 100), 229, under no. 82.

1998

  • Bonnard. Exh. cat. Tate Gallery, London, and Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1998: 82, under no. 15, fig. 36 (reproducing page 100).

Inscriptions

Editorial notes in pen throughout the text.

Markings

stamped in black ink on first page: ATELIER ORIENTAL / 1re ÉPREUVE [in rectangular box] / 17 avril 1897.


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