{ "data": { "id": 84500, "accession_number": "2020.100", "share_license_status": "Copyrighted", "tombstone": "Fruit and Fruit Dishes, c. 1930. Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867\u20131947). Oil on canvas; unframed: 59.9 x 70.1 cm (23 9/16 x 27 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.100. \u00a9 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York", "current_location": "223 20th Century Avant-Garde", "title": "Fruit and Fruit Dishes", "creation_date": "c. 1930", "creation_date_earliest": 1925, "creation_date_latest": 1935, "artists_tags": [ "Nabis", "male" ], "culture": [ "France, 20th century" ], "technique": "oil on canvas", "support_materials": [], "department": "Modern European Painting and Sculpture", "collection": "Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960", "type": "Painting", "measurements": "Unframed: 59.9 x 70.1 cm (23 9/16 x 27 5/8 in.)", "dimensions": { "unframed": { "height": 0.599, "width": 0.701 }, "framed": { "height": 0.754, "width": 0.857, "depth": 0.067 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": "\u00a9 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York", "inscriptions": [ { "inscription": "Signed lower left", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null } ], "exhibitions": { "current": [ { "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" }, { "id": 458336, "title": "Bonnard's Worlds", "description": "Bonnard's Worlds. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (organizer) (November 5, 2023-January 28, 2024); The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (March 2-June 2, 2024).", "opening_date": "2023-11-05T04:00:00" } ], "legacy": [ { "description": "Bonnard: The Late Paintings. Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (February 23-May 21, 1984); Phillips Collection, Washington DC (June 9-August 25, 1984); Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (September 13-November 11, 1984).", "opening_date": "1984-02-23T00:00:00" }, { "description": "Bonnard. Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom (February 12-May 17, 1998); The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (June 17-October 13, 1998).", "opening_date": "1998-02-12T00:00:00" } ] }, "provenance": [ { "description": "Joe Hessel [1859-1942] Paris, France", "citations": [], "footnotes": [ "
According to Jean Dauberville and Henry Dauberville, Bonnard, Catalogue Raisonne\u0301 de l\u2019\u0152uvre Peint (Paris, 1966), vol. III, p. 174, cat. no. 1206. 
" ], "date": null, "sortorder": 1 }, { "description": "Daniel Varenne, Paris, France, sold to Walter Feilchenfeldt", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?\u20131971", "sortorder": 2 }, { "description": "(Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich, Switzerland, April 10, 1974, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Neison Harris)", "citations": [], "footnotes": [ "
Many thanks to the Walter Feichenfeldt Archives for this information. Much of the information is also published in the Christie\u2019s 2005 sale catalogue.
" ], "date": "1971\u20131974", "sortorder": 3 }, { "description": "Mr. Neison Harris [1915-2001] and Mrs. Neison Harris [1917-2005] Chicago, IL, by descent and consigned to Christie's NY", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1974\u20132005", "sortorder": 4 }, { "description": "(Christie's, New York, NY, November 1, 2005, lot 9, sold to Acquavella Galleries)", "citations": [], "footnotes": [ "
According to Kelly Devine Thomas, \u201cRunaway Imp/Mod Sales: Quality Works Fuel High Prices,\u201d ARTnews (November 22, 2005), this painting was purchased by the Acquavella Galleries at the Christie\u2019s sale. 
" ], "date": "2005", "sortorder": 5 }, { "description": "(Acquavella Galleries, New York, NY, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "2005", "sortorder": 6 }, { "description": "Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "2005\u20132020", "sortorder": 7 }, { "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "2020\u2013", "sortorder": 8 } ], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Bonnard loved dogs and owned dachshunds throughout his life. He invariably named his dogs \"Poucette.\"", "description": "Dining scenes are a recurrent theme in Pierre Bonnard\u2019s paintings. While each painting is unique, there are several constants: artfully arranged still lifes, white tablecloths that seem to glow with kaleidoscopic color, and the presence of a close circle of family and friends that often included canine and feline members of the household. Here, a compotier, or long-stemmed dish, of fruit presides at the center of the table, joined by a carafe, two wine glasses, and several dishes displaying fruit and a round of cheese. At the bottom left edge is a cat who stares down a dachshund on the right.", "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q87480869" ], "internet_archive": [] }, "citations": [ { "citation": "Dauberville, Jean, and Henry Dauberville. Bonnard, Catalogue Raisonne\u0301 de l'Oeuvre Peint. Paris, France: J. et H. Bernheim, 1966.", "page_number": "Reproduced: Vol. III, p. 174, no. 1206", "url": null }, { "citation": "Feilchenfeldt, Marianne, and Walter Feilchenfeldt. 25 Jahre Feilchenfeldt in Zu\u0308rich: 1948-1973. Zurich, Switzerland: [publisher not identified], 1972.", "page_number": "Reproduced: no. 24", "url": null }, { "citation": "Newman, Sasha M. Bonnard: The Late Paintings. Washington, DC.: Phillips Collection, 1984.", "page_number": "Mentioned & Reproduced: P. 190-191, no. 42", "url": null }, { "citation": "Elderfield, John and Sarah Whitfield. Bonnard. London, United Kingdom: Tate Gallery Pub, 1998.", "page_number": "Mentioned & Reproduced: P. 172-173, no. 60", "url": null }, { "citation": "Chapin, Mary Weaver. \"Pierre Bonnard.\" In The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, edited by Heather Lemonedes Brown, 102-127. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 126-127; Mentioned: p. 254-257", "url": "" }, { "citation": "\"Exhibitions: Transformative Gift.\" Art & Antiques XLV, no. 10 (November 2022): 48-53.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 50; Mentioned: p. 51", "url": "" }, { "citation": "Cahn, Isabelle. Bonnard. Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 2023.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 250-251, 276, no. 251", "url": "" }, { "citation": "Shackelford, George T. M., and Elsa Smithgall. Bonnard\u2019s Worlds. Fort Worth, Texas, Washington, DC: Kimbell Art Museum; The Phillips Collection, 2023.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 186-187, no. 48", "url": "" }, { "citation": "Cahn, Isabelle. Bonnard. Translated by David Wharry. English edition. Munich: Prestel, 2024.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 250-251, 276, no. 251", "url": "" } ], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.100", "images": {}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": "Michael J. Horvitz Family Gallery", "athena_id": 84500, "creators": [ { "id": 1733, "description": "Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867\u20131947)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "artist", "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.", "name_in_original_language": null, "birth_year": "1867", "death_year": "1947", "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": false, "weight": 1 } ], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "2020-03-02T00:00:00-05:00", "sortable_date": 1925, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "c. 1930", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "object", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": [], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-03-27 00:00:48.300000" } }