La vie de sainte Monique
Primary TitleUntitled
Artist
Pierre Bonnard
(French, 1867 - 1947)
Date1930
MediumEtching
DimensionsImage: 8 3/8 × 5 13/16 inches (21.27 × 14.76 cm)
Credit LineGift of Jack Freborg
Object numberF87-27/2
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionFive men in togas, shown from about the waist up, with a tree overhanging their heads. The man on the far left is in full profile; he has a large nose and ear. He clutches his toga to his chest. Several of the other figures are looking at him.Exhibition History[None known at this time.]
Jack Freborg (1931–1997), Atchison, KS, by December 18, 1987;
Given by Jack Freborg to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1987.
Ambroise Vollard, La vie de Sainte Monique (Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1930).
Francis Bouvet, Bonnard: The Complete Graphic Work (London: Thames and Hudson, 1981), no. 111, pp. 258, 279.
Antoine Terrasse, Pierre Bonnard Illustrator: A Catalogue Raisonné (New York: Biro, 1988), no. 64.
Una E. Johnson, Ambroise Vollard, Editeur, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1977), no. 170.
George L. McKenna, The Collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Prints 1460–1995 (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in association with The University of Washington Press, 1996), 209–91, as illustrations from La vie de sainte Monique.
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