Maquette for "Parallèlement"

1900 (proofs stamped 1897)

Pierre Bonnard

Artist, French, 1867 - 1947

Paul Verlaine

Author, French, 1844 - 1896

Pierre Legrain

Bookbinder, French, 1889 - 1929

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound proof with 8 lithographs and 35 proof drawings in blue pencil and black charcoal

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    book: 30.3 × 25.3 × 2.6 cm (11 15/16 × 9 15/16 × 1 in.)

  • Accession

    2014.112.36

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bouvet 1981, no. 73, proofs

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Daniel Sickles; (H. P. Kraus, 1962); 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 1700-1914. New York, 1982: 506, under no. 383A.

1989

  • Pierre Bonnard: The Graphic Art. Exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1989: 28 (fig. 37, reproducing pages 42/43), 163-165 (fig. 222, reproducing pages 18/19), 229, under no. 82.

Inscriptions

editorial notes in ink throughout

Watermarks

Arches

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