Woman with an Umbrella, 1895
Pierre Bonnardexpand_more
Color lithographexpand_more
Gift of Edith and Norman Garmezyexpand_more 2000.283.2
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Early in his career Pierre Bonnard made Woman with an Umbrella for the literary and art journal La Revue blanche. The model was Marthe de Méligny, a timid florist's assistant whom the artist met late in 1893 and who soon became his muse. Contemporaries described her as having "a skipping step on heels as high and thin as a bird's feet." Here Bonnard successfully captures Marthe's delicate figure and distinctive posture while effectively presenting a modern Parisian woman.
Details
- Title
- Woman with an Umbrella
- Artist Life
- 1867–1947
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2000.283.2
- Provenance
- (Judith L. Pillsbury Fine Arts, Paris, sold to Garmezy, 1986); Edith and Norman Garmezy, Edina, Minn., 1986-2000; given to MIA.
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Bouvet 33; Roger-Marx 35
- Curator Approved
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