Verve Lithograph Of Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947)

Verve Lithograph Of Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947)
An original lithograph on wove paper after French artist Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) titled "Jeaune Fille dans un Barque", 1939. Limited edition: approx. 2000. Bonnard authorized and was commissioned to see this print produced. Comes from the famous "Verve" portfolio, Volume 1. Printed and published by "Verve", Paris, France, 1939. There is another lithograph on verso as issued. Sheet size: 14" x 10.5". In excellent condition. "Verve" was a modernist Parisian art magazine published by Teriade between 1937 and 1960. The magazine was first published in December 1937. The headquarters of the magazine was in Paris. It published 38 issues in 10 volumes including lithographs by the most prominent artists of the Parisian art scene of the first half of the 20th century. In addition, the early contributors included James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway. The magazine folded in 1960.Pierre Bonnard (French: 3 October 1867 — 23 January 1947) was a French painter and printmaker, as well as a founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis. Bonnard preferred to work from memory, using drawings as a reference, and his paintings are often characterized by a dreamlike quality. The intimate domestic scenes, for which he is perhaps best known, often include his wife Marthe de Meligny. Bonnard has been described as "the most thoroughly idiosyncratic of all the great twentieth-century painters", and the unusual vantage points of his compositions rely less on traditional modes of pictorial structure than voluptuous color, poetic allusions and visual wit. Identified as a late practitioner of Impressionism in the early 20th century, Bonnard has since been recognized for his unique use of color and his complex imagery. "It's not just the colors that radiate in a Bonnard", writes Roberta Smith, "there's also the heat of mixed emotions, rubbed into smoothness, shrouded in chromatic veils and intensified by unexpected spatial conundrums and by elusive, uneasy figures."

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