La Revue Blanche

Series TitleLes Maitres de l'affiche

Artist Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867 - 1947)

Date1894

MediumColor lithograph

DimensionsImage: 10 3/16 × 7 15/16 inches (25.88 × 20.16 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Bloch

Object numberF84-4/6

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Exhibition History

Posters and Modern Color Prints, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 5–December 29, 1985, no. 8, as La Revue Blanche.

Art on the Avenues: Posters from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 16–July 28, 1996, no. 2, as La Revue Blanche.

Art of Advertising, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 22–July 17, 2011, no cat.

Gallery Label

La Revue blanche (1889–1903) was a Parisian periodical that provided a forum for the most topical issues of its time. Politics, society, philosophy, literature, music, theater and art were featured and debated on its pages. In 1891, publisher Thadée Natanson invited Bonnard to work for the publication. In this striking poster, one of his finest, the artist depicts a stylish Parisian woman holding a copy of La Revue blanche, just purchased from the newsstand behind her. Bonnard’s text, above the tousle-haired boy, announces that La Revue blanche is published monthly and sold everywhere.
With its flat expanses of white, gray and black, Bonnard’s poster advertises that La Revue blanche is read by those in the know—the fashionable, contemporary and forward-thinking.

Provenance

Robert L. (b. 1952) and Barbara E. (née Klugman, b. 1958) Bloch, Shawnee Mission, KS, by January 19, 1984;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1984.

Published References

Claude Roger-Marx, Bonnard Lithographie (Monte Carlo: A. Sauret, 1952), no. 32.

Francis Bouvet, Bonnard: The Complete Graphic Work (London: Thames and Hudson, 1981), no. 30.

Colta Ives, Helen Giambruni and Sasha Newman, Pierre Bonnard: The Graphic Art, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989), no. 34.

Posters and Modern Color Prints, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1985), 6, as La Revue Blanche.

Art on the Avenues: Posters from the Permanent Collection, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 3, as La Revue Blanche.

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), 295, as La Revue blanche.

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