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Landscape with Olive Trees and a Chapel

Maker

(Artists)
1867-1947

Title

Landscape with Olive Trees and a Chapel

Date of Production

c. 1924

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 48.3 cm (canvas)
Width: 61 cm (canvas)

Accession Number

P.1935.RF.34

Mode of Acquisition

Roger Fry Trustees, gift, 1935

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Label Text

Pierre Bonnard is known primarily as a painter of interiors. Later in his career however, he
became increasingly interested in depicting landscape and, by 1935, even described himself
as having ‘acquired a landscapist’s soul’. This work may have been painted in Le Cannet in
the south of France, where Bonnard was to buy a house in 1925. The rich colours herald
the expressive freedom of his late work. His notebooks record his intense observation of
nature and a sensitivity to the changing colour effects of shadow and sunlight that are so
evident in this work.

Provenance

Acquired by Roger Fry from the artist by Bernheim-Jeune, 1924; Gift of the Roger Fry Trustees, 1935

Exhibition History

Masterpieces of Impressionism from The Courtauld Gallery, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 10/09/2019-15/12/2019; Aichi Prefectural Museum, Nagoya, Japan, 03/01/2020-15/03/2020; Kobe City Museum, Kobe, Japan, 28/03/2020-21/06/2020

Pierre Bonnard, Musée national des beaux-arts du Quèbec, Canada, 06/10/2016-10/01/2017

Pierre Bonnard - Magier der Farbe, Wuppertal & Germany, 12/09/2010-30/01/2011 ...More

Bonnard, Musee Municipal des Beaux-Arts, Kagoshima, Japan, 15/07/2004-09/09/2004

Bonnard, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Sompo, Japan, 29/04/2004-29/06/2004

The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 14/06/1998-21/09/1998

The Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, 26/12/1997-12/05/1998

Pierre Bonnard Retrospective, Humlebaek & Denmark, 12/09/1992-10/01/1993

Pierre Bonnard, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1966 ...Less

Literature

The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1998

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : signed : lower centre & recto : : Bonnard

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