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8. Le Cannet , 1941

Oil on canvas 14 1 ⁄

8 × 20 ½ inches ( 36 . 0 × 52 . 0 cm)

Signed lower left

provenance: Galerie Moos, Geneva; Public sale Geneva, Galerie Moos, 1949 , no. 54 ; Jean Salomon, Geneva; JPL Fine Arts, as of 2005 ; Private collection, UK.

literature: Jean and Henry Dauberville. Bonnard, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint . Paris: Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1992 . Vol. IV, no. 1604 . During World War II, Bonnard maintained his residence at Le Cannet, spending the last ten years of his life there and continuing as a recluse even after Marthe died in 1942 . Shortly before his death he completed the large mural Saint Francis Healing the Sick ( 1947 ) for the Church of Assy in Le Cannet and then finished his last painting The Almond Tree in Blossom a week before his death. The Museum of Modern Art in New York organized a posthumous retrospective of Bonnard’s work in 1948 , although originally it was meant to be a celebration of the artist’s 80 th birthday.

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