Panneaux décoratifs - Femmes au jardin

1890/1891

Pierre Bonnard1867 Fontenay-aux-Roses – 1947 Le Cannet
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The present panneaux are the incomplete first version of a four-part work, the second, modified version of which is preserved in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. The panels were initially intended for a four-part screen, but Bonnard disassembled it because the individual panneaux seemed too much like 'pictures' to him. The woman on the first panel cannot be identified; in the second, his younger sister Andrée can be recognized, and in the two back figures, cousin Berthe Schaedlin. 'Femmes au Jardin' represents Bonnard's first important work in the Nabis style.
Also known as
Dekorative Paneele - Frauen im Garten Decorative Panels - Women in the Garden
Medium
Distemper over carbon, crayon and white chalk on paper, mounted on canvas
Dimensions
image: each 155 x 45 cm
Inventory number
1982/0024.a-d
Credit line
Kunsthaus Zürich, Vereinigung Zürcher Kunstfreunde, Donated in memory of Ernst Gamper, 1984