GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Pierre Bonnard designed this lithograph as the cover for an album of prints published by L’Estampe originale, a French avant-garde magazine aimed at middle-class art collectors. Composed of twelve lithographs, the album was produced in collaboration with La Revue Blanche, another arts periodical that had published the images in successive issues over the previous year. In the 1890s, progressive journals became a venue for artists to both advertise their work and hone their aesthetic styles. Here, Bonnard portrays a woman training her high-spirited dog. Her striking black silhouette cuts vertically through the erratic lettering of the album’s title, disrupting the placement of words across the page. Unlike traditional illustrations, where images appear next to their corresponding text, here text and figure are liberated, with the woman and words playfully intertwined. Some editions of the portfolio were bound with a cord, which might explain the small holes on the front and back side of this cover.
Excerpt from
Nicole Myers, DMA label copy, 2018
NOTES
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In 1895, L'Estampe originale (Paris) published an "album" of twelve prints, each by a different artist, all of which had been published as a cover illustration of the journal La Revue blanche the previous year. Pierre Bonnard contributed both the final print in Album de La Revue blanche, Woman with an Umbrella (Femme au parapluie), as well as the wrap-around cover, seen here. On the front of the portfolio owners encountered Bonnard's unique, handwritten script asymmetrically arranged around the elongated, flat black shape of a standing woman. Her head tilts downward toward the lettering and a small dog jumping excitedly by her feet. The left side of the page would have appeared on the back of the Album and contained a wreath made up of interwoven nude figures.
Emily Schiller, Digital Collections Content Coordinator, 2015.
Confirm basic information for 2006.47.1-13-- Date 1895, portfolio name Album de La Revue blanche, published by L'Estampe originale (Paris), edition 15/50, sold for 25 francs in 1895 price on lower left corner of the back cover(confirmed in Götz Adriani, Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Graphic Works (catalogue raisonné) (London: Thames and Hudson, 1986), 101.)
Added the following three sources to all objects in the Album.
[These sources were pulled from Bonnard, The Graphic Art (1989, Met publication online and downloaded to my computer), page 195, note 28; page 201; page 218, note 46.)]
Wildenstein and Co., La Revue Blanche: Paris in the Days of Post-Impressionism and Symbolism, exh. cat. (New York, 1983).
Hermann, Fritz. Die Revue blanche und die Nabis (Munich, 1959).
Jackson, A.B. La Revue blanche (1889-1903): Origine, influence, bibliographie (Paris, 1960).
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woman
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dog
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handwriting
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wreath
nude
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WEB RESOURCES
- Pierre Bonnard: The Graphic Art (1989)~Read or download this exhibition catalogue from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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- Bonnard produced over thirty-five images for La Revue blanche between 1893 and 1903.
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General Description
Pierre Bonnard designed this lithograph as the cover for an album of prints published by L’Estampe originale, a French avant-garde magazine aimed at middle-class art collectors. Composed of twelve lithographs, the album was produced in collaboration with La Revue Blanche, another arts periodical that had published the images in successive issues over the previous year. In the 1890s, progressive journals became a venue for artists to both advertise their work and hone their aesthetic styles. Here, Bonnard portrays a woman training her high-spirited dog. Her striking black silhouette cuts vertically through the erratic lettering of the album’s title, disrupting the placement of words across the page. Unlike traditional illustrations, where images appear next to their corresponding text, here text and figure are liberated, with the woman and words playfully intertwined. Some editions of the portfolio were bound with a cord, which might explain the small holes on the front and back side of this cover.
Excerpt from
Nicole Myers, DMA label copy, 2018
Fun Facts
- Bonnard produced over thirty-five images for La Revue blanche between 1893 and 1903.
Archival Resources
Web Resources
- Pierre Bonnard: The Graphic Art (1989)~Read or download this exhibition catalogue from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Notes
This note was previously tagged #routed (and possibly !Routed_Feb15). I am removing those tags and replacing with #draft so that this note proceeds to GDocs for routing and is harvested to Brain. (EAS, 12/19/2016)
In 1895, L'Estampe originale (Paris) published an "album" of twelve prints, each by a different artist, all of which had been published as a cover illustration of the journal La Revue blanche the previous year. Pierre Bonnard contributed both the final print in Album de La Revue blanche, Woman with an Umbrella (Femme au parapluie), as well as the wrap-around cover, seen here. On the front of the portfolio owners encountered Bonnard's unique, handwritten script asymmetrically arranged around the elongated, flat black shape of a standing woman. Her head tilts downward toward the lettering and a small dog jumping excitedly by her feet. The left side of the page would have appeared on the back of the Album and contained a wreath made up of interwoven nude figures.
Emily Schiller, Digital Collections Content Coordinator, 2015.
Confirm basic information for 2006.47.1-13-- Date 1895, portfolio name Album de La Revue blanche, published by L'Estampe originale (Paris), edition 15/50, sold for 25 francs in 1895 price on lower left corner of the back cover(confirmed in Götz Adriani, Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Graphic Works (catalogue raisonné) (London: Thames and Hudson, 1986), 101.)
Added the following three sources to all objects in the Album.
[These sources were pulled from Bonnard, The Graphic Art (1989, Met publication online and downloaded to my computer), page 195, note 28; page 201; page 218, note 46.)]
Wildenstein and Co., La Revue Blanche: Paris in the Days of Post-Impressionism and Symbolism, exh. cat. (New York, 1983).
Hermann, Fritz. Die Revue blanche und die Nabis (Munich, 1959).
Jackson, A.B. La Revue blanche (1889-1903): Origine, influence, bibliographie (Paris, 1960).
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Produced-Paris
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Thadée Natanson
Subject terms
woman
cover sheet
portfolio
standing
dog
lettering
handwriting
figure
wreath
nude
publication
RELATED OBJECTS
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