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Bonnard, Pierre. (1867–1947). Urban Landscape with Reclining Figure, 1927.
Original drawing, pencil on paper, depicting a street scene with buildings under a cloudy sky and a clothed female figure lying horizonally in the lower area. Some notations indicating the artist's color conceptions ("...sky grey and blue") within the image. Accomplished on the blank verso of a bank receipt from the office of the Banque Nationale de Crédit in Cannes, dated January 20, 1927 and addressed to "Monsieur Bonnard." The receipt reads, in part and translated from the French, "It is our pleasure to inform you that your bank account, No. 1467, has been credited today in the amount of 54,015.50 Francs."  The form letter is printed, save for the bank account number and amount deposited, which have been written in graphite.  The banker and bank manager have signed to the bottom.  Mild edgewear, creases, small vertical split to lower margin, overall in fine condition.  4.75 x 7.5 inches (12.3 x 19.4 cm.).

It is evident that the paper was folded and likely that landscape and female figure are separate, not integrated conceptions. Possibly intended to be a standing figure, it is quite possibly Marthe (Maria Boursin; 1869–1942), whom Bonnard met in 1893 and had married in 1925. Her depicted horizontal orientation in the present drawing as it reads now, while evidently clothed, recalls the artist's many paintings and drawings of her in her bathtub.

Bonnard, Pierre. (1867–1947) Urban Landscape with Reclining Figure, 1927

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Bonnard, Pierre. (1867–1947). Urban Landscape with Reclining Figure, 1927.
Original drawing, pencil on paper, depicting a street scene with buildings under a cloudy sky and a clothed female figure lying horizonally in the lower area. Some notations indicating the artist's color conceptions ("...sky grey and blue") within the image. Accomplished on the blank verso of a bank receipt from the office of the Banque Nationale de Crédit in Cannes, dated January 20, 1927 and addressed to "Monsieur Bonnard." The receipt reads, in part and translated from the French, "It is our pleasure to inform you that your bank account, No. 1467, has been credited today in the amount of 54,015.50 Francs."  The form letter is printed, save for the bank account number and amount deposited, which have been written in graphite.  The banker and bank manager have signed to the bottom.  Mild edgewear, creases, small vertical split to lower margin, overall in fine condition.  4.75 x 7.5 inches (12.3 x 19.4 cm.).

It is evident that the paper was folded and likely that landscape and female figure are separate, not integrated conceptions. Possibly intended to be a standing figure, it is quite possibly Marthe (Maria Boursin; 1869–1942), whom Bonnard met in 1893 and had married in 1925. Her depicted horizontal orientation in the present drawing as it reads now, while evidently clothed, recalls the artist's many paintings and drawings of her in her bathtub.