Oil paint on canvas
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Table
Presented by the Courtauld Fund Trustees 1926
actions: postures and motions
adults
basket
Bonnard, Marthe
colour
dining room
domestic
eating
eating and drinking
emotions, concepts and ideas
food and drink
formal qualities
fruit - non-specific
individuals: female
interiors
kitchen
leisure and pastimes
named individuals
objects
people
plate
portraits
sitting
vessels and containers
woman
<p>This painting was bought as a result of the Courtauld Fund. In January 1924 the wealthy textile manufacturer Samuel Courtauld gave the large sum of £50,000 to create a trust for buying Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works for the Tate Gallery. Between 1924 and 1927 the Trust bought nineteen paintings by artists such as Edouard Manet, Paul Gauguin, Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet and Paul Cézanne. This donation transformed the Tate’s Collection of modern art by non-British artists. This significant painting was acquired only a year after it was made, and was the first work by Bonnard to enter the Tate Collection.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
17 January 2002 – 24 March 2002
2002-03-24
17 January 2002 – 24 March 2002
2002-03-24
2002-01-17
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2002-01-17
David Sylvester Memorial Display
Exhibition
1 September 2002 – 30 June 2003
2003-06-30
1 September 2002 – 1 January 2003
2003-01-01
2002-09-01
Phillips Collection (Washington, USA)
1 February 2003 – 1 June 2003
2003-06-01
2003-02-01
Denver Art Museum (Denver, USA)
2002-09-01
Pierre Bonnard: Early and Late
Loan-out
24 November 2003 – 5 March 2006
2006-03-05
24 November 2003 – 5 March 2006
2006-03-05
2003-11-24
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2003-11-24
Archive/Library
Collection based display
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
26 January 2009 – 19 April 2009
2009-04-19
26 January 2009 – 19 April 2009
2009-04-19
2009-01-26
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA)
http://www.metmuseum.org
2009-01-26
Pierre Bonnard: Late Still Lifes
Loan-out
12 September 2010 – 31 January 2011
2011-01-31
12 September 2010 – 31 January 2011
2011-01-31
2010-09-12
Von der Heydt Museum (Wuppertal, Germany)
2010-09-12
Pierre Bonnard - Dialoge
Loan-out
16 March 2015 – 15 May 2016
2016-05-15
16 March 2015 – 19 July 2015
2015-07-19
2015-03-16
Musée d’Orsay (Paris, France)
19 September 2015 – 10 January 2016
2016-01-10
2015-09-19
Fundacíon Mapfre (Madrid, Spain)
6 February 2016 – 15 May 2016
2016-05-15
2016-02-06
Legion of Honor (San Francisco, USA)
http://www.legionofhonor.org
2015-03-16
Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947). Painting Arcadia
Loan-out
20 October 2016 – 29 January 2017
2017-01-29
20 October 2016 – 29 January 2017
2017-01-29
2016-10-20
Kunstmuseum Bonn (Bonn, Germany)
2016-10-20
The Uncanny Home - Interiors from Edvard Munch to Max Beckmann
Loan-out
17 September 2018 – 20 January 2019
2019-01-20
17 September 2018 – 20 January 2019
2019-01-20
2018-09-17
National Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
2018-09-17
Courtauld Masterpieces: From Manet to Cézanne
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
20 February 2025 – 15 October 2025
2025-10-15
20 February 2025 – 18 May 2025
2025-05-18
2025-02-20
Nationalmuseum (Stockholm, Sweden)
http://www.nationalmuseum.se
15 June 2025 – 15 October 2025
2025-10-15
2025-06-15
Lillehammer Kunstmuseum (Lillehammer, Norway)
2025-02-20
Pierre Bonnard and the Nordic Countries
Loan-out
The Table
support: 1029 × 743 mm
frame: 1256 × 965 × 113 mm
Presented by the Courtauld Fund Trustees 1926
<p><span>This <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> was bought as a result of the Courtauld Fund. In January 1924 the wealthy textile manufacturer Samuel Courtauld gave the large sum of £50,000 to create a trust for buying <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/i/impressionism" title="Glossary definition for 'Impressionism'"><span>Impressionist</span></a> and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/post-impressionism" title="Glossary definition for 'Post-Impressionism'"><span>Post-Impressionist</span></a> works for the Tate Gallery. Between 1924 and 1927 the Trust bought nineteen paintings by artists such as Edouard Manet, Paul Gauguin, Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet and Paul Cézanne. This donation transformed the Tate’s Collection of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/m/modernism" title="Glossary definition for 'Modernism'"><span>modern art</span></a> by non-British artists. This significant painting was acquired only a year after it was made, and was the first work by Bonnard to enter the Tate Collection.</span>
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<strong>Pierre Bonnard</strong> 1867-1947
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<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-table-n04134" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04134</span></a> <strong>La Table</strong> (The Table) 1925
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Inscribed 'Bonnard' b.r.<br/>
Oil on canvas, 40 1/2 x 29 1/4 (103 x 74)<br/>
Presented by the Trustees of the Courtauld Fund 1926<br/>
<em>Prov:</em> With Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (purchased from the artist); through Independent Gallery, London; the Trustees of the Courtauld Fund<br/>
<em>Exh:</em> RSA, Edinburgh, April-August 1932 (211); RSA, Edinburgh, April-August 1946 (104); <em>Samuel Courtauld Memorial Exhibition</em>, Tate Gallery, May-September 1948 (1); <em>Bonnard and his Environment</em>, Museum of Modern Art, New York, October-November 1964 (34, repr.); Art Institute of Chicago, January-February 1965 (34, repr.); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March-May 1965 (34, repr.); <em>Pierre Bonnard</em>, RA, London, January-March 1966 (179)<br/>
<em>Lit:</em> Douglas Cooper, <em>The Courtauld Collection</em> (London 1954), No.1, p.83, repr. pl.64; Jean and Henry Dauberville, <em>Bonnard</em> (Paris 1973), No.1310, Vol.3, p.255, repr. p.254 and facing colour plate<br/>
<em>Repr:</em> <em>Burlington Magazine</em>, XLVIII, 1926, p.64
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The woman is probably Marthe Bonnard, the artist's wife. She is looking towards a dog whose muzzle is faintly visible on the left, and seems to be preparing its food in a bowl.
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A similar <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> in coloured chalks, said to have been made in 1929, is reproduced in T. Natanson, <em>Le Bonnard que je propose</em> (Geneva 1951), pl.77.
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<strong>Published in:</strong><br/>
Ronald Alley, <em>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</em>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.66-7, reproduced p.66

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Catalogue entry
2004-09-15T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults basket Bonnard, Marthe colour dining room domestic eating eating and drinking emotions, concepts and ideas food and drink formal qualities fruit - non-specific individuals: female interiors kitchen leisure and pastimes named individuals objects people plate portraits sitting vessels and containers woman