Pierre BONNARD (1867-1947) La Petite fille au... Lot 19

Pierre BONNARD (1867-1947) La Petite fille au chien or Isabelle Lecomte du Noüy with Bonnard's dog at Le Cannet, circa 1929-32 Oil on canvas. Estate stamp lower left. 51 x 63 cm Provenance : - Estate of Bonnard (Inv. n° 20). - Collection Antoine Terrasse, son of Charles Terrasse. - Collection of Monsieur and Madame P., Paris. Acquired directly from the latter. Exhibitions : - Pierre Bonnard, Centenary of his birth, Haus Der Kunst, Munich, October 8, 1966 - January 1, 1967, catalog, no. 106, reproduced (label on back). - Pierre Bonnard, Centenaire de sa naissance, Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris, January 13 - April 17, 1967, catalog, no. 126 (dated 1929-1932 and dimensions: 51 x 63 cm), reproduced (label on back). - Bonnard, Musée Cantini, Marseille, May 1 - June 11, 1967, catalog, no. 21, reproduced. - Bonnard, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, September 16 - October 29, 1967, no. 69. - Bonnard, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, March 20 - May 5, 1968, catalog, no. 63, reproduced p. 104 (label on back). - Bonnard, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, May 11 - June 16, 1968, catalog, no. 63, reproduced p. 104. - Bonnard, Galerie Krugier, Geneva, June 1969, catalog, no. 23, reproduced on p. 18. - Pierre Bonnard, Hamburg, 1970, no. 55. - Bonnard, Villa Medici, Rome, November 18, 1971 - January 23, 1972 and Museum of Modern Art, Turin, February 1 - 28, 1972, catalog, no. 16, reproduced. - Bonnard dans sa lumière, Fondation Maeght, July 12 - September 28, 1975, no. 44 reproduced p. 84 (label on back). - Hommage à Bonnard, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, May 10 - August 25, 1986, no. 65 (label on back). - Pierre Bonnard, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, September 11, 1992 - January 10, 1993, catalog, no. 89 (back label). - Pierre Bonnard décorateur, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, July 9 - November 8, 1998. - Pierre Bonnard, Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva Foundation, Lisbon, July 11 - September 30, 2001, catalog, reproduced p. 85. - Entre chiens & chats, Bonnard et l'animalité, edited by Véronique Serrano, Musée Bonnard, Le Cannet, July 2 - November 6, 2016, catalog, reproduced p. 33, ill. 6. Bibliography: - André Lhote, Bonnard, Seize peintures, 1939-1943, Paris, Éditions du Chêne, 1944 and 1948, reproduced pl. VII (dated 1939). - Antoine Terrasse, Bonnard, Paris, Skira, 1964, reproduced p. 72. - André Fermigier, Pierre Bonnard, Paris, La Bibliothèque des Arts, Éditions Cercle d'Art, 1969, reproduced p. 135 and described p. 134. - Jean and Henry Dauberville, Bonnard, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Tome III, Paris, Bernheim-Jeune, 1973, no. 1415, reproduced p. 332 (La Petite fille au chien (Isabelle Lecomte de Nouy with Bonnard's dog at Le Cannet) oil on canvas, 51 x 63 cm, now signed lower left). - Raymond Cogniat, Bonnard, Paris, Flammarion, 1976, reproduced on p. 69. This work is a study for the definitive painting Mademoiselle Isabelle Lecomte de Noüy (1929).