Pierre Bonnard
Luncheon Table
1907
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Pierre Bonnard
Luncheon Table
1907
Physical Qualities
Oil on paperboard, Unframed: 19 5/8 × 25 3/4 in. (49.8 × 65.4 cm.)
Framed: 29 1/2 × 35 1/4 × 2 1/2 in. (74.9 × 89.5 × 6.4 cm.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, Bequest of Frederic W. Cone
Object Number
1950.189
In the late 1880s and 1890s Pierre Bonnard was a member of the Nabis, a group of artists who were inspired by the work of Paul Gauguin and his use of flat areas of pure color with strong outlines. Bonnard was also influenced by the color and patterning of Japanese woodblock prints. Luncheon Table, painted just as the Nabis group was disbanding at the turn of the twentieth century, features Bonnard’s signature decorative style with its layers of vibrant color applied in small, distinct brushstrokes. This intimate view of a woman seated at a table with a dog at her feet is a quintessential example of the quiet harmonies that the artist discovered in his daily surroundings.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore, by bequest, 1944; Frederic Cone, Baltimore
John Rewald, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Pierre Bonnard", May 12-September 6, 1948, no. 12.
Gertrude Rosenthal, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Selections from the Cone Collection", October 7-December 31, 1949, no. 1.
Gertrude Rosenthal, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "From Ingres to Gauguin: French Nineteenth Century Paintings Owned in Maryland", November 13-December 30, 1951, no. 168.
Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, "Paintings by Bonnard", March 12-April 7, 1956, no. 3.
The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL, "Loan Exhibition of Works by Pierre Bonnard, 1867-1947", January 4-January 27, 1957, no. 6.
Public Education Association, New York, "Seven Decades of Modern Art 1895-1965", April 26-May 21, 1966, no. 31.
Gertrude Rosenthal, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "From El Greco to Pollock: Early and Late Works by European and American Artists", October 22-December 8, 1968, no. 95.
Bret Waller, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, NY, "Artists of la Revue Blanche: Bonnard, Toulouse-Lautrec, Vallotton, Vuillard", January 22-April 15, 1984, no. 6.
Katherine Rothkopf, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Matisse, Picasso, and the School of Paris: Masterpieces from The Baltimore Museum of Art featuring Selections from the Collection of Etta and Claribel Cone", circulated to North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh October 10, 2004-January 16, 2005; The Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida (as "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Impressionism to Surrealism, Masterworks of Painting and Sculpture from The Baltimore Museum of Art)," February 5-May 1, 2005; The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville (as "Matisse, Picasso, and the School of Paris: Masterpieces from The Baltimore Museum of Art"), March 2-June 3, 2007.
Gamynne Guillotte and Oliver Shell, Joseph Education Center, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Imagining Home", October 25, 2015 -
Gertrude Rosenthal, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Selections from the Cone Collection", October 7-December 31, 1949, no. 1.
Gertrude Rosenthal, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "From Ingres to Gauguin: French Nineteenth Century Paintings Owned in Maryland", November 13-December 30, 1951, no. 168.
Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, "Paintings by Bonnard", March 12-April 7, 1956, no. 3.
The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL, "Loan Exhibition of Works by Pierre Bonnard, 1867-1947", January 4-January 27, 1957, no. 6.
Public Education Association, New York, "Seven Decades of Modern Art 1895-1965", April 26-May 21, 1966, no. 31.
Gertrude Rosenthal, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "From El Greco to Pollock: Early and Late Works by European and American Artists", October 22-December 8, 1968, no. 95.
Bret Waller, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, NY, "Artists of la Revue Blanche: Bonnard, Toulouse-Lautrec, Vallotton, Vuillard", January 22-April 15, 1984, no. 6.
Katherine Rothkopf, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Matisse, Picasso, and the School of Paris: Masterpieces from The Baltimore Museum of Art featuring Selections from the Collection of Etta and Claribel Cone", circulated to North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh October 10, 2004-January 16, 2005; The Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida (as "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Impressionism to Surrealism, Masterworks of Painting and Sculpture from The Baltimore Museum of Art)," February 5-May 1, 2005; The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville (as "Matisse, Picasso, and the School of Paris: Masterpieces from The Baltimore Museum of Art"), March 2-June 3, 2007.
Gamynne Guillotte and Oliver Shell, Joseph Education Center, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Imagining Home", October 25, 2015 -
John Rewald, "Pierre Bonnard," New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1948, pp. 71, 139, no. 12, ill.
George Boas, Adelyn D. Breeskin, and J.G. D'Arcy Paul, "Selections from the Cone Collection," "News of The Baltimore Museum of Art," October 1949, vol. 13, no. 1, p. 11.
"$3,000,000 Art Collection," "Look Magazine," April 25, 1950, vol. 14, no. 9, p. 111, ill.
Gertrude Rosenthal, "From Ingres to Gauguin: French Nineteenth Century Paintings Owned in Maryland," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1951, pp. 13, 45, no. 168.
Lincoln F. Johnson, Jr., "Pierre Bonnard and Impressionism," "News of The Baltimore Museum of Art," December 1953, vol. XVII, no. 2, pp. 2, 4, front page, ill. front page, p. 2.
George Boas, Adelyn Breeskin, and Gertrude Rosenthal, "Cone Collection: A Handbook with a Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1955, pp. 26, 27, no. 4.
"Paintings by Bonnard," New York: Paul Rosenberg and Company, 1956, pp. 4, 7, no. 3, ill.
The Society of the Four Arts, "Loan Exhibition of Works by Pierre Bonnard, 1867-1947," Palm Beach, FL: The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL, 1957, no. 6, ill.
Emilie Keyes, "Pierre Bonnard: Poet/Painter, Second Show at Society of the Four Arts," "Palm Beach Life," January 29, 1957, vol. L, no. 2, p. 76, ill.
Jean and Henry Dauberville, "Bonnard, Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint, 1906-1919," Paris: Éditions J. et H. Bernheim-Jeune, 1965, pp. 137, 468, no. 522, ill. (published as "Le Déjeuner").
George Boas, Adelyn Breeskin, and Gertrude Rosenthal, "Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings in the Cone Collection," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1967, pp. 18, 36, 65, no. 4, ill.
Public Education Association and Peter Selz, "Seven Decades of Modern Art, 1895-1965," New York: Public Education Association, 1966, pp. 31, 189, p. 31, ill.
Gertrude Rosenthal, "From El Greco to Pollock: Early and Late Works by European and American Artists," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1968, pp. 118-119, p. no. 95, ill.
Bret Waller and Grace Seiberling, "Artists of la Revue Blanche: Bonnard, Toulouse-Lautrec, Vallotton, Vuillard," Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, 1984, pp. 50, 58, no. 6, ill.
Richard H. Love, "Theodore Earl Butler: Emergence from Monet's Shadow," Chicago: Haase-Mumm Publishing Company, Inc., 1985, pp. 181, 428, 444, pl. 33, ill.
Donald Miller, "A Coup for Naples," "Naples Daily News," February 4, 2005, p. 7D.
Inscribed: Recto: Lower right in paint, "Bonnard"
