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1. O, Ombre (drawing for Un Alphabet sentimental) , 1893

Brush and india ink with pencil on paper 7¼ x 7 7 ⁄ 8 in. ( 18 . 4 x 20 cm) Stamped with monogram, lower right

provenance: Estate of the artist; Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London; E.V. Thaw & Co., New York; D’Offay Couper Gallery, London; Acquired from the above by Dr. George S. Heyer, Jr., December 1969 .

literature: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Pierre Bonnard The Graphic Art , December 5 , 1989 –January 4 , 1990 , p. 63 (ill. fig. 79 ); Guy-Patrice et Floriane Dauberville. Bonnard: catalogue raisonné des aquarelles, gouaches, pastels, crayons de couleur et lavis . Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2021 . Vol I, no. 107 , p. 9 . Our drawing is a proposal for the unrealized project Un Alphabet sentimental , a children’s book on the alphabet. The letter O stands for the French word “ombre” which means shadow, and the shadow figures depicted are Bonnard’s sister and nephew,

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