- Artist
- Pierre Bonnard 1867–1947
- Original title
- Baigneuse, de dos
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 441 × 346 mm
frame: 631 × 534 × 105 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Bequeathed by the Hon. Mrs A.E. Pleydell-Bouverie through the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1968
- Reference
- T01077
Catalogue entry
Pierre Bonnard 1867-1947
T01077 Baigneuse, de Dos
(Bathing Woman, from the Back) c.1919
Inscribed 'Bonnard' b.r. and 'Pour mon ... | Gerard' on the back (the latter part of the inscription is partly illegible)
Oil on canvas, 17 3/8 x 13 5/8 (44 x 34.5)
Bequeathed by the Hon. Mrs A.E. Pleydell-Bouverie through the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1968
Prov:
Given by the artist to Gérard (?); private collection, Paris; with Lefevre Gallery, London; the Hon. Mrs A.E. Pleydell-Bouverie, London, 1951
Exh:
The Pleydell-Bouverie Collection, Tate Gallery, January-April 1954 (3) as 'Nude' 1920; Pierre Bonnard, RA, London, January-March 1966 (165) as 'Nude' c.1923
Lit:
Jean and Henry Dauberville, Bonnard
(Paris 1968), No.968, Vol.2, p.452, repr. as 'Baigneuse, de Dos' and dated c.1919
Repr:
The Friends of the Tate Gallery: Annual Report 1st May 1968-30th April 1969
(London 1969), p.13
Published in:
Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.65, reproduced p.65
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