Pierre Bonnard: Femme assise, de dos

Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867-1947),*Femme assise, de dos*, signed and dated ‘Bonnard 98’ (lower right), oil on board laid down on panel, 13 ¼ x 6 3/8 in. (33.7 x 16.8 cm.), Painted in 1898, Image Source: Christie’s

“Unlike the long series of paintings that the artist would make of a hired studio model in 1905, which appear quite consciously posed, Marthe seems to be caught unaware at a private moment, her head bowed in a posture of self-absorption. A man’s straw boater, which hangs on the wall in the background, provides evidence for the artist, momentarily departed, within this inner sanctum. “Let it be felt that the painter was there,” Bonnard recorded in his journal (quoted in ibid., p. 166).”
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Bonnard, Pierre, Colta Feller Ives, Helen Emery Giambruni, and Sasha M. Newman. 1989. Pierre Bonnard, the graphic art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15324coll10/id/92079 , (accessed 8 Nov 2018).