Parallèlement
1900 (proofs stamped 1897)
Artist, French, 1867 - 1947
Author, French, 1844 - 1896
Artwork overview
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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
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book: 30.7 × 25.5 × 2.2 cm (12 1/16 × 10 1/16 × 7/8 in.)
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Accession
2014.112.34
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Catalogue Raisonné
Bouvet 1981, no. 73, proofs
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.