Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
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Contemporary Art Society
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Window
Presented by Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill through the Contemporary Art Society 1930
adults
architecture
book, Nansen, Peter, ‘Marie’
Cannet, Le, Villa Hirondelle
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
features
France
furnishings
ink bottle
landscape
objects
paper
pen
people
places
reading, writing, printed matter
roof
table
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
window
woman
wooded
<p>In this work, Bonnard unites interior and exterior in the strong sunlight of the South of France. It was made in a rented apartment at Le Cannet, the town which the artist’s wife Marthe is seen surveying from the balcony. The sensuality and warmth of the south entranced Bonnard, but in his paintings he habitually framed the landscape with windows or doorways, as if submitting the abundance of nature to human control.</p><p><em>Gallery label, December 2007</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
30 November 2001 – 24 February 2002
2002-02-24
30 November 2001 – 24 February 2002
2002-02-24
2001-11-30
Galleria d’Arte Moderna  (Bologna, Italy)
http://www.galleriadartemoderna.bo.it
2001-11-30
La Natura Della Natura Morta
Loan-out
7 March 2003 – 28 September 2003
2003-09-28
7 March 2003 – 9 June 2003
2003-06-09
2003-03-07
National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, Australia)
4 July 2003 – 28 September 2003
2003-09-28
2003-07-04
Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia)
2003-03-07
Pierre Bonnard: Observing Nature
Loan-out
5 May 2006 – 15 April 2012
2012-04-15
5 May 2006 – 15 April 2012
2012-04-15
2006-05-05
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2006-05-05
After Impressionism
Collection based display
3 August 2015 – 12 June 2016
2016-06-12
3 August 2015 – 12 June 2016
2016-06-12
2015-08-03
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2015-08-03
Paul Cezanne
Collection based display
13 September 2017 – 14 January 2018
2018-01-14
13 September 2017 – 14 January 2018
2018-01-14
2017-09-13
Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie (Frankfurt, Germany)
http://www.staedelmuseum.de
2017-09-13
Matisse - Bonnard. Long live painting!
Loan-out
23 January 2019 – 12 January 2020
2020-01-12
23 January 2019 – 6 May 2019
2019-05-06
2019-01-23
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
6 June 2019 – 22 September 2019
2019-09-22
2019-06-06
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek (Copenhagen, Denmark)
10 October 2019 – 12 January 2020
2020-01-12
2019-10-10
Kunstforum Wien (Vienna, Austria)
http://www.kunstforum-wien.at
2019-01-23
Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory
Exhibition
6 June 2019 – 12 January 2020
2020-01-12
6 June 2019 – 22 September 2019
2019-09-22
2019-06-06
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek (Copenhagen, Denmark)
10 October 2019 – 12 January 2020
2020-01-12
2019-10-10
Kunstforum Wien (Vienna, Austria)
http://www.kunstforum-wien.at
2019-06-06
Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory
Loan-out
9 June 2023 – 8 October 2023
2023-10-08
9 June 2023 – 8 October 2023
2023-10-08
2023-06-09
National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia)
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au
2023-06-09
Pierre Bonnard
Loan-out
The Window
support: 1086 × 886 mm
frame: 1283 × 1094 × 127 mm
Presented by Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill through the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> 1930
<p>In this work, Bonnard unites interior and exterior in the strong sunlight of the South of France. It was made in a rented apartment at Le Cannet, the town which the artist’s wife Marthe is seen surveying from the balcony. The sensuality and warmth of the south entranced Bonnard, but in his paintings he habitually framed the landscape with windows or doorways, as if submitting the abundance of nature to human control.</p>

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<p><b>Pierre Bonnard</b> 1867-1947</p>
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/bonnard-the-window-n04494" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04494</span></a> <b>La Fenêtre</b> (The Window) 1925</p>
<p>Inscribed 'Bonnard' b.r. 
<br/>Oil on canvas, 42 3/4 x 34 7/8 (108.5 x 88.5) 
<br/>Presented by Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill through the CAS 1930 
<br/><i>Prov</i>: With Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (purchased from the artist, 16 February 1927); with Independent Gallery, London, 1927; Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill, London 
<br/><i>Exh: The CAS: Second Loan Exhibition of Foreign Paintings</i>, M. Knoedler, London, February 1928 (59); <i>Bonnard</i>, de Hauke &amp; Co., New York, April 1928 (16); <i>Acquisitions of the CAS</i>, Tate Gallery, September-October 1946 (6); <i>Paintings by Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard</i>, RSA, Edinburgh, August-September 1948 (36, repr.); <i>Pierre Bonnard</i>, RA, London, January-March 1966 (178, repr.); <i>Pierre Bonnard</i>, Haus der Kunst, Munich, October 1966-January 1967 (99, repr.); Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris, January-April 1967 (111, repr.) 
<br/><i>Lit</i>: Jean and Henry Dauberville, <i>Bonnard</i> (Paris 1973), No.1318, Vol.3, p.259, repr. p.260 
<br/><i>Repr</i>: Charles Terrasse, <i>Bonnard</i> (Paris 1927), p.3 as 'Le Cannet. La Fenêtre' (dated 1925 on p.204); Carlos Peacock, <i>Painters and Writers</i> (London 1949), pl.57 in colour</p>
<p>Painted at Le Cannet (Alpes-Maritimes), in an apartment occupied by the painter in the Villa Hirondelle prior to his purchase in 1925 of the Villa du Bosquet. Through the window may be seen the red roofs of the little town of Le Cannet. On the table is the novel <i>Marie</i> by Peter Nansen, for which Bonnard drew the illustrations: it was published by the <i>Revue Blanche</i> in 1898. (Information from Charles Terrasse in letters of 31 May 1951 and 13 January 1954).</p>
<p><b>Published in</b>: <bt>Ronald Alley, <i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.67, reproduced p.67</bt></p>

Catalogue entry
2003-07-16T00:00:00
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adults architecture book, Nansen, Peter, ‘Marie’ Cannet, Le, Villa Hirondelle cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents features France furnishings ink bottle landscape objects paper pen people places reading, writing, printed matter roof table townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features window woman wooded