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"accession_number": "1949.18",
"share_license_status": "Copyrighted",
"tombstone": "The Dessert, 1921. Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867\u20131947). Oil on fabric; framed: 114.6 x 117.5 x 7.9 cm (45 1/8 x 46 1/4 x 3 1/8 in.); unframed: 76.2 x 80 cm (30 x 31 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund, 1949.18. \u00a9 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris",
"current_location": "223 20th Century Avant-Garde",
"title": "The Dessert",
"creation_date": "1921",
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"creation_date_latest": 1921,
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"technique": "oil on fabric",
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"department": "Modern European Painting and Sculpture",
"collection": "Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960",
"type": "Painting",
"measurements": "Framed: 114.6 x 117.5 x 7.9 cm (45 1/8 x 46 1/4 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 76.2 x 80 cm (30 x 31 1/2 in.)",
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"height": 1.146,
"height_inch": 45,
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"width": 1.175,
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"depth": 0.079,
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"depth_inch_fraction": 0.125
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"width": 0.8,
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"copyright": "\u00a9 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris",
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"inscription": "Signed dark red at lower left: Bonnard\r\n",
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"current": [
{
"id": 301477,
"title": "In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.",
"description": "In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958).",
"opening_date": "1958-03-04T05:00:00"
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"id": 191797,
"title": "Object in Focus: Pierre Bonnard's The Dessert",
"description": "Object in Focus: Pierre Bonnard's The Dessert. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 1-October 14, 1997).",
"opening_date": "1997-09-01T00:00:00"
},
{
"id": 182153,
"title": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Beijing World Art Museum (May 26-August 27, 2006); Mori Art Center (September 16-November 26, 2006); Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009).",
"opening_date": "2006-05-27T00:00:00"
},
{
"id": 396695,
"title": "Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection",
"description": "Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).",
"opening_date": "2022-09-11T04:00:00"
}
],
"legacy": [
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"description": "Possibly Paris. Premi\u00e8re exposition des collections au profit de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Amis du Luxembourg (according to damaged label on the back).",
"opening_date": null
},
{
"description": "Antwerp, Kunst van Heden/Art Contemporain. Exposition d'art fran\u00e7ais moderne (1926), no. 3, Au dessert, App. \u00e0 M. A. Kapferer.",
"opening_date": "1926-01-01T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Possibly Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts. Exposition d'Art Fran\u00e7ais Moderne (1929), no. 418, Apr\u00e8s le d\u00e9jeuner; or no. 421, Dessert, both owned by Kapferer.",
"opening_date": "1929-01-01T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Paris, Galerie O. P\u00e9trid\u00e8s. 18 peintures de Bonnard (1943), no. 15 (repr.), Apr\u00e8s le d\u00e9jeuner.",
"opening_date": "1943-01-01T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "New York, Paul Rosenberg. Bonnard (1956), no. 6, 10 (repr.).",
"opening_date": "1956-01-01T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Akron (Ohio) Art Institute. Masterpiece Series (1957), no catalogue.",
"opening_date": "1957-01-01T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; September 1 - October 14, 1997. \"Object in Focus: Pierre Bonnard's The Dessert.\"",
"opening_date": "1997-09-01T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "CMA (organizer). Beijing World Art Museum, China, May 26 - Aug. 27, 2006; Mori Arts Center, Tokyo, Japan: Sept. 9 - Nov. 26, 2006; Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea: Dec. 18, 2006 - March 31, 2007; Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea: Apr. 7 - May 20, 2007; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: June 9 - Sept. 16, 2007; Cleveland Museum of Art, Oct. 21, 2007- January 13, 2008; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, Feb. 21-June 1, 2008; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT, June 22 - September 21, 2008; and the Detroit Institute of Arts, MI, October 12, 2008 - January 18, 2009: \"Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art\"",
"opening_date": "2006-05-26T00:00:00"
}
]
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"description": "Henri Kapferer [1870-1956] and Marcel Kapferer [1872-1966], Paris",
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"footnotes": [
"The Kapferer brothers are listed as the lenders/owners of Bonnard\u2019s Le Dessert, no. 108 in the Premi\u00e8re exposition au profit de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Amis du Luxembourg. The Bonnard catalogue raisonn\u00e9 incorrectly lists this exhibition as taking place in 1932.
"
],
"date": "By 1924",
"sortorder": 1
},
{
"description": "(Galerie O. P\u00e9trid\u00e8s, Paris",
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"footnotes": [
"While there have been some suggestions that the Bonnard was with Galerie P\u00e9trid\u00e8s in 1932, there does not appear to be any confirming documentation; however, the painting does appear in a 1943 Bonnard exhibition at the gallery (no. 15, Apr\u00e8s le d\u00e9jeuner).
"
],
"date": "By 1943",
"sortorder": 2
},
{
"description": "(Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": [],
"date": "Until 1949",
"sortorder": 3
},
{
"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": [],
"date": "1949-",
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}
],
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"did_you_know": "In this painting Pierre Bonnard gives us a colorful glimpse of an intimate dinner scene at the beginning of the 2. He places us close to the figures and a little bit higher, as if we were just standing to leave the table, allowing the viewer to imagine being part of the scene.",
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"description": "This domestic scene depicts a woman at a dining table accompanied by a young man at whose side is a small dog, just visible at the edge of the table. The woman is the artist\u2019s wife, Marthe. The boy has been identified as Ari Redon, the son of artist Odilon Redon; and the dachshund is the Bonnard family pet, Poucette. The painting explores the simple pleasures of daily life\u2014a shared meal, quiet companionship\u2014enriched through the application of glowing, sensual color.",
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"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60515635"
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},
"citations": [
{
"citation": "Paul Rosenberg & Co., invoice to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Feb. 7, 1949, in CMA curatorial file.",
"page_number": null,
"url": null
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{
"citation": "Galerie O. Pe\u0301tride\u0300s. 18 peintures de Bonnard. Paris: Galerie O. Pe\u0301tride\u0300s, 1943.",
"page_number": null,
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Socie\u0301te\u0301 des amis du Luxembourg. 1re exposition de collectionneurs: ouverte du 10 mars au 10 avril 1924 au profit de la Soci\u02b9et\u02b9e des Amis du Luxembourg en l'Hotel de la Curiosit\u02b9e et des Beaux-Arts. Paris: Frazier-Soye, 1924.",
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"url": null
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"citation": "Francis, Henry S. \u201cThe Art of Pierre Bonnard.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 37, no. 1 (January 1950): 2, 5\u20138.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 2; Mentioned: p. 5-8",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25141599"
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 516",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n95"
},
{
"citation": "Henning, Edward B. \u201cSouth of His House, North of His House: Nyack, a Painting by Fairfield Porter.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 58, no. 3 (March 1971): 85\u201390.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 86-87, fig. 3",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152366"
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 226",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n246"
},
{
"citation": "Henning, Edward B. \u201cPierre Bonnard: La Terrasse de Caf\u00e9.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 65, no. 2 (February 1978): 58\u201365.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 64, fig. 5",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159565"
},
{
"citation": "Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 46-47, Vol. I, no. 17",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Franklin, David. The Cleveland Museum of Art. London: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd., 2012.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 68 - 69",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 299",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Picture Book No. 4 . [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 42",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1952"
},
{
"citation": "Serrano, Ve\u0301ronique. Bonnard et la Po\u00e9sie d'un Objet Ordinaire. Cinisello Balsamo, Milano: Silvana Editoriale, 2024.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 10, p. 53; Mentioned: p. 11",
"url": ""
}
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"url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.18",
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"creditline": "Gift of the Hanna Fund",
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"gallery_donor_text": "Michael J. Horvitz Family Gallery",
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"biography": "Pierre Bonnard was a law student when he began his artistic training in 1887 at the Acad\u00e9mie Julian in Paris, where he met Paul S\u00e9rusier (1864-1927) and the theorist and painter Maurice Denis (1870-1943). Both would be influential in his artistic career and become Bonnard's lifelong friends. In 1889, the year he obtained his law degree, he saw the exhibition at Caf\u00e9 Volpini (see Gauguin, Woman in the Waves, no. 100) and was particularly impressed with Gauguin's work. S\u00e9rusier, after having returned from studying with Gauguin in Pont-Aven, decided to form his own artistic group called the Nabis (Hebrew: prophets). The founding members of the Nabis included Denis, who wrote the manifesto for the group, \"D\u00e9finition du n\u00e9o-traditionnisme\" (published in May 1890 in Art et critique), Bonnard, Paul Ranson (1864-1909), and Henri-Gabriel Ibels (1867-1936). Their first exhibition occurred in 1891, and they were later joined by Ker-Xavier Roussel (1867-1944) and Vuillard (q.v.). Based loosely on the synthetist goals established by Gauguin and \u00c9mile Bernard, the movement was created from S\u00e9rusier's vision of an artistic brotherhood dedicated to symbolism whereby a universal language could be expressed through symbols. The Nabis were opposed to the naturalism taught at academies by artists such as Bouguereau (q.v.) and wanted to move away from didactic and moral paintings toward a more decorative style characterized by simplified drawing, flat patches of color, and heavy set contours. Bonnard's works of the 1890s were influenced by the innovations of Gauguin as well as Japanese prints, which were easily accessible in nineteenth-century Paris. His paintings took on a decorative quality, mirroring his artistic expressions in other media such as stained glass, furniture, pottery, and painted screens. Bonnard's and Vuillard's domestic interior paintings of the 1890s were often described using the term intimisme. In 1891 Bonnard also experimented with other media, including poster designs and lithographs, which inspired his friend Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), whom he had met through La revue blanche, a magazine that published the Nabis' work. Around 1900 the members of the Nabis began to drift apart. Between 1905 and 1910 Bonnard and Vuillard traveled to England, Belgium, Holland, Spain, and Italy, visiting many museums. Bonnard's art began to gravitate toward impressionism, but his colors were more expressive and his compositions more overtly structured; elements of the painted interiors such as doors, windows or pieces of furniture often provided a strong compositional framework. He also worked extensively with photographs. His late works were acclaimed by fellow Parisians like Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and Paul Signac (1863-1935). After 1920 Bonnard exhibited extensively and became an internationally renowned artist, receiving much recognition in the United States, where he traveled in 1926.",
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