Alfred Daber

French, active 1920 - 1970

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A bouquet of at least six red and pink-edged white flowers in a blue bottle is at the center of this vertical, still-life watercolor. Some petals are picked out with blue-gray lines, and the blooms are touched with areas of golden yellow, emerald green, and sky blue around a graphite sketch. The bottom portion of the bottle itself fades away with sketchy lines and washes about three-quarters of the way down the painting. The space behind the flowers is painted with loose strokes making widely spaced, overlapping, diagonal bands filled in with frosty green, mauve pink, smoky pale purple, and muted blue. Another set of bands angling into the composition from the left edge could represent the corner of a table.
Paul Cezanne, Roses in a Bottle [recto], 1900/1904, watercolor over graphite on wove paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1995.47.26.a

Roses in a Bottle [recto]

Paul Cezanne · 1900/1904 · watercolor over graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1995.47.26.a

Paul Cezanne, Waking Up [verso], c. 1880, watercolor and graphite on wove paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1995.47.26.b

Waking Up [verso]

Paul Cezanne · c. 1880 · watercolor and graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1995.47.26.b

A small, long brown dog is partly hidden by a bowl of red cherries perched on the right edge of a table in this loosely painted, horizontal scene. In the light-filled interior, the table fills the lower left half of the composition. It is draped with a sand-colored cloth decorated with a diagonal band of rose-pink strokes that ends near the lower right. In the center of the table, a tall glass pitcher half filled with water rests in a shallow burgundy-red bowl. Next to the pitcher, to our right, one bowl piled with cherries sits in front of clusters of green grapes in another bowl. Beyond the table, a wooden piece of furniture with two open shelves fills the upper left of the composition. The dog stands on the right side facing our left in profile. It is chocolate brown with a short tail and stubby little legs, and its face is hidden by the cherries. The walls and floors of the room are painted in swipes of teal, peach, tan, blues, and grays. The artist has signed the upper center right in red, “Bonnard.”
Pierre Bonnard, Still Life with Dog, c. 1912, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2014.18.1

Still Life with Dog

Pierre Bonnard · c. 1912 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.18.1

Pierre Bonnard, The Artist's Sister and Her Children, 1898, oil on cardboard on wood, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, 1970.17.6

The Artist's Sister and Her Children

Pierre Bonnard · 1898 · oil on cardboard on wood ·  Accession ID  1970.17.6

Bibliography

1989

  • Les donateurs du Louvre, Paris, 1989:181