La Foire ou La Parade
Oil on board mounted on cradled panel
36.5 x 28 cm (14 ⅜ x 11 in.)
Painted circa 1892
Provenance :
- Alphonse Bellier, Paris
- Private collection
Exhibited :
- New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Pierre Bonnard, 1948, p. 25, illustrated
- Bern, Kunsthalle, Die Maler der Revue Blanche: Toulouse-Lautrec und die Nabis, 21 March – 22 April 1951, n° 4
- Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Bonnard, Vuillard et les Nabis, 1888 – 1903, 8 June – 2 October 1955, p. 50, n° 72 (dated around 1898)
- Paris, Galerie Jean-Claude et Jacques Bellier, Bonnard: Peintures, 15 November – 17 December 1960, n° 2
- London, The Royal Academy of Arts, Pierre Bonnard, 6 January – 13 March 1966, p. 38, n°35
- Munich, Haus Der Kunst, Pierre Bonnard: Centenaire de sa naissance, 8 October 1966 – 1st January 1967; Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, 13 January – 17 April 1967, n° 16, illustrated
- Tokyo, Nihonbashi Takashima Art Gallery, 10 October – 21 December 1980; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Arts, 6 January – 18 January 1981; 22 February 1981, Pierre BonnardFukuoka Municipal Museum of Arts, 28 January –
- Madrid, Fundación Juan March, Pierre Bonnard, October – November 1983, n° 3, illustrated in color
- Zürich, Kunsthaus, Pierre Bonnard, 14 December 1984 – 10 March 1985, p. 86-87, n° 11, illustrated in color
- Verona, Galleria d’Arte moderna et contemporanea, Palazzo Forti, Da Van Gogh a Schiele: L’Europa espressionista 1880-1918, 7 July – 10 October 1989, p. 112, illustrated in color, p. 261
- Lausanne, Fondation de l’Hermitage, Pierre Bonnard, 7 June – 6 October 1991, 37, n° 5, illustrated in color, p. 142, illustrated
- Gifu, The Museum of Fine Art, Tournant de la Peinture, 4 February – 21 March 1993, p. 95, n° 162, illustrated in color
- Munich, Kunsthalle, Pierre Bonnard, 28 January – 24 April 1994, n° 7, illustrated in color
- Paris, Fondation Dina Vierny, Musée Maillol, Pierre Bonnard, 31 May – 9 October 2000, 25, n° 8, illustrated in color, p. 98
- Madrid, Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Una mirada sobre Pierre Bonnard, 15 January – 4 March 2001, p. 50, n° 35, illustrated in color
- Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 11 March – 31 May 2004 ; Ottawa, Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada, 25 June – 19 September 2004, La Grande Parade: Portrait de l’artiste en clown, p. 103, n° 21, illustrated in color
- New York, The Metropolitan Museum, Seurat’s Circus Sideshow, 17 February – 29 May 2017, p. 99, fig.100, illustrated in color, p.131
Literature :
- John Reward, Pierre Bonnard, New York, 1948, p. 25
- Raymond Cogniat, Bonnard, Flammarion, Paris, 1968, 32-33, illustrated in color
- Jean & Henri Dauberville, Pierre Bonnard, Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, vol. 4, page 136, n° 01726 (wrong dimensions)
- Guy Cogeval, Bonnard, les chefs-d’œuvre, Fernand Hazan, Paris, 1993, p. 56, n° 7, p. 57, illustrated in color
- Guy Cogeval, Bonnard, les chefs-d’œuvre, Fernand Hazan, Paris, 1998, p. 56, n° 7, p. 57, illustrated in color
- Guy Cogeval, Bonnard, Hazan, 2015, p. 62-63, illustrated in color