Pierre Bonnard
1867-1947 · French · Nabis, Post-Impressionism
Auction record: $19.57M
La Terrasse ou Une terrasse à Grasse, 1912 · Christie's, New York · May 13, 2019
Source: heni.com
Biography
Pierre Bonnard was a French painter and founding member of the Nabis, the group of young artists who, in the 1890s, drew on Gauguin and Japanese prints to create flat, decorative compositions. He later became one of the great colourists of the twentieth century, painting domestic interiors, gardens, Mediterranean views and his wife Marthe in the bath, often from memory, with shimmering, saturated colour. Long overshadowed by Matisse and Picasso, he has been reassessed by major museum exhibitions. His market rewards large, luminous landscapes and interiors from the 1910s to the 1940s. His auction record, La Terrasse ou Une terrasse à Grasse (1912), sold for 19.6 million dollars at Christie's New York in May 2019.
Market
- Liquidity: Medium
Museums
- Musée d'Orsay, Parigi
- Musée Bonnard, Le Cannet
- The Phillips Collection, Washington
- Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Tate, Londra
Sources
- HENI News, La Terrasse record
- Masterworks, Pierre Bonnard
- Artfix Daily, Bonnard soars at London auction 2011
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