Pierre Bonnard

Baigneurs à la fin du jour, 1945
Oil on canvas
18.8 x 27 in. (48 x 69 cm)
Signed lower right

Provenance
Gift of the artist to Tériade, circa 1945
Tériade Collection, Paris

Exhibition
Bonnard, Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, Oct. – Nov. 1947, no. 83.
Bonnard, Rotterdam, Boymans – Van Beuningen Museum, March – April 1953, no. 96.
Bonnard, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Feb. – May 1984, then Washington, DC, The Philipps Collection, June – Aug., 1984, and Dallas Museum of Art, Sept. – Nov. 1984.
Il tempo dei Nabis, 1890 – 1940: Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, Valloton, Sérusier, Ranson, Florence, Palazzo Corsini, May-June 1998, no. 136 and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Aug-Nov 1998.
Bonnard, Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, June-Nov 1999, no. 63, p.161.

Bibliography
Pierre Bonnard, Beer, F-J., Marseille, 1947, reproduced, pl.188, p. 138;
Couleur de Bonnard, Verve, vol V, nos. 17-18, aug. 1947, reproduced
Bonnard, R.Cogniat, Paris, 1950, reproduced p. 47 (detail)
Bonnard, catalog raisonné de l’oeuvre peint J. & H. Dauberville, , vol. IV, Neufchâtel, 1974, no. 1655, p.79
Bonnard: The Late paintings, S. M. Newman, Paris, 1984, p.230, pl 62