painting of a woman sitting on a bench in a parktwo paintings of a woman sitting on a bench in front of a treean old picture frame with a bunch of old papers on ita sculpture in the middle of a room with a painting on the wall
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Estimate €150,000 - €250,000
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Pierre BONNARD Marthe Bathing – 1893 Oil and pencil on panel Signed and dated top left ‘PBonnard /93’ 35.2 x 27 cm Provenance: Thadée Natanson, Paris Auction, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Maître Baudoin, 13 June 1908, lot 2 Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired at this auction) Adams Brothers Collection, London, 1937 A. Harpman Collection Rosemary Peto Collection, Bembridge, Isle of Wight (acquired in 1949) Auction, London, Christie’s, 8 December 1999, lot 9 Neffe-Degandt Fine Art Gallery, London Private collection, New York (2001) Auction, New York, Sotheby’s, 6 November 2015, lot 203 Acquired at this auction by the current owner Louis Grandchamp des Raux Collection Exhibitions: Paris, Galerie Vollard, circa 1894 Exeter, Royal Albert Museum and Art Gallery; Wolverhampton, Municipal Art Gallery; Sunderland, Public Museum and Art Gallery; Carlisle, Museum and Art Gallery; Eastbourne, Towner Art Gallery, ‘French Paintings from Mr Peto’s Collection’, 1951–1952, no. 3 Plymouth, City Art Gallery, ‘French Impressionists and English Painting and Sculpture from the Peto Collection’, 1960–1961, no. 3 London, Royal Academy, ‘Pierre Bonnard’, winter 1966, no. 11, p. 34 (according to a label on the reverse) Munich, Haus der Kunst, Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Centenary of the Birth of Pierre Bonnard, October 1966 – April 1967 (according to a label on the reverse) Nottingham, Nottingham Castle Museum, Pierre Bonnard 1867–1947, 1984, no. 117, illustrated Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, Pierre Bonnard, July 1991 Aix-en-Provence, Hôtel de Caumont, art centre, Bonnard and Japan, April–October 2024, reproduced on p. 156 Barcelona, Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera, The Nabis: from Bonnard to Vuillard, March–June 2026, p. 234, reproduced in colour on p. 190 Warsaw, Royal Łazienki Museum, The Nabis – Prophets of a New Art, July–September 2026 Bibliography: G. Coquiot, *Bonnard*, Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1922, pp. 21–23 T. Natanson, *Le Bonnard que je propose*, Pierre Cailler, Geneva, 1951, no. 2, p. 112 J. and H. Dauberville, Revised and Expanded Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings 1888–1905, vol. I, Paris, 1992, no. 72, reproduced in black and white on p. 136 N. Watkins, *Bonnard*, Phaidon, Paris, 1994, no. 24, reproduced on p. 37 A certificate from Mr Pierre Vernon may be issued at the purchaser’s request. Pierre BONNARD 35.2 x 27 cm
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