Name: PIERRE BONNARD (1867-1947)
Brand: L’enfant à la lampe
Price: 6000.00 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

PIERRE BONNARD (1867-1947)
L’enfant à la lampe
lithograph in colors, on Chine paper, circa 1897, signed in pencil, from the edition of 100, printed by Auguste Clot, published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris, with full margins, framed
Image: 13 x 18 1/8 in. (330 x 460 mm.)
Sheet: 17 x 22 5/8 in. (431 x 575 mm.)

Roger-Marx 43; Bouvet 43

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Lot Essay

Throughout the 1890s, lamplight was a common theme Bonnard used to suggest the physical and emotional shelter provided by the home. Family life after dark tended to be concentrated around a table lit by an oil or kerosene lamp. The face of the child is illuminated by the light source in a manner that recalls the dramatic stage lighting of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s posters. In Bonnard’s scene however, the atmosphere is one of quiet absorption.