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The Dessert
1921
Pierre Bonnard
Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867–1947)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
The Dessert, 1921. Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867–1947). Oil on fabric; framed: 114.6 x 117.5 x 7.9 cm (45 1/8 x 46 1/4 x 3 1/8 in.); unframed: 76.2 x 80 cm (30 x 31 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund 1949.18 © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris In this painting Bonnard gives us a colorful glimpse of an intimate dinner scene at the beginning of the 20th century. He places us close to the figures and a little bit higher, as if we were just standing to leave the table, allowing the viewer to imagine being part of the scene.
- Maker/Artist
- Bonnard, Pierre
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 114.6 x 117.5 x 7.9 cm (45 1/8 x 46 1/4 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 76.2 x 80 cm (30 x 31 1/2 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed dark red at lower left: Bonnard
- Departments
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1949.18
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Hanna Fund
- Exhibitions
- In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Object in Focus: Pierre Bonnard's The Dessert, Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection, Possibly Paris. Première exposition des collections au profit de la Société des Amis du Luxembourg (according to damaged label on the back).<br>Antwerp, Kunst van Heden/Art Contemporain. Exposition d'art français moderne (1926), no. 3, Au dessert, App. à M. A. Kapferer.<br>Possibly Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts. Exposition d'Art Français Moderne (1929), no. 418, Après le déjeuner; or no. 421, Dessert, both owned by Kapferer.<br>Paris, Galerie O. Pétridès. 18 peintures de Bonnard (1943), no. 15 (repr.), Après le déjeuner.<br>New York, Paul Rosenberg. Bonnard (1956), no. 6, 10 (repr.).<br>Akron (Ohio) Art Institute. Masterpiece Series (1957), no catalogue. <br>Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; September 1 - October 14, 1997. "Object in Focus: Pierre Bonnard's The Dessert."<br>CMA (organizer). Beijing World Art Museum, China, May 26 - Aug. 27, 2006; Mori Arts Center, Tokyo, Japan: Sept. 9 - Nov. 26, 2006; Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea: Dec. 18, 2006 - March 31, 2007; Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea: Apr. 7 - May 20, 2007; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: June 9 - Sept. 16, 2007; Cleveland Museum of Art, Oct. 21, 2007- January 13, 2008; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, Feb. 21-June 1, 2008; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT, June 22 - September 21, 2008; and the Detroit Institute of Arts, MI, October 12, 2008 - January 18, 2009: "Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art"
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted undefined
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