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Pierre Bonnard
Lot 29

Pierre Bonnard

Quelques aspects de la vie de Paris

Closed17 September 2014

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Pierre Bonnard
Quelques aspects de la vie de Paris
the complete set of 12 lithographs in colours and the title-page, 1899, the title-page on China paper, otherwise on fine wove paper, R.-M. 61, 68 & 70 signed in pencil, R.-M. 61 numbered no. 66, R.-M. 68 & 70 numbered no. 16, published by A. Vollard, Paris, R.-M. 63 trimmed above and below, otherwise the full sheets, some with pale mount staining and scattered foxing in the margins, generally in good condition
S. 530 x 403 mm. (and similar)
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Specialist note

'No one better captures the look of the street, the coloured patch seen through the Parisian mist, the passing silhouettes, a young girl's frail grace. A searching hand moving with simian pliancy seizes the passing gesture, the evanescent faces of the street, born and vanished on the instant. It is the poetry of life that is gone, a remembrance of things, of animals, of human beings'. (Gustave Geffroy, quoted in: Rediscovered Printmakers of the 19th Century, Merrill Chase Gallery, Chicago, 1978).