Portrait Ambroise Vollard

c. 1904/1905

Pierre Bonnard1867 Fontenay-aux-Roses – 1947 Le Cannet
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Bonnard painted several portraits of the art dealer, publisher and art writer Ambroise Vollard (1865-1939), whom he had met through Maurice Denis in 1893 (see in Jean et Henry Dauberville: Bonnard. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, vol. I: 1888-1905 (Paris 1965, revised and updated edition 1992), vol. I, 1965, nos. 303, 304 (Zurich, Stiftung Sammlung E. G. Bührle); Jean et Henry Dauberville: Bonnard. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, vol. III: 1920-1939 (Paris 1973), vol. III, 1973, nos. 1259, 1260 and vol. IV, 1974, no. 01854). Vollard had Bonnard illustrate a substantial part of the books he published. Cézanne's 'Quatre Baigneuses' from 1879-1882 (Venturi 1936, no. 386) can be seen on the wall, a painting that belonged to Vollard, who had organized the first large Cézanne exhibition in 1895 with over a hundred paintings. In 1901 he hosted the first Picasso exhibition, and in 1904 the first Matisse exhibition. Vollard was also portrayed by Renoir, Cézanne and Picasso.
Also known as
Portrait of Ambroise Vollard Portrait d'Ambroise Vollard [original]
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
image: 74 x 93 cm
Inventory number
1950/0007
Credit line
Kunsthaus Zürich, 1950