Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) - Portrait de jeune femme, ou Le chapeau

signed 'Bonnard' (upper right) - oil on canvas laid down on board - 19 x 16 1/4 in. (48.4 x 41.3 cm.) - Painted circa 1905 - Estimate: £250,000-350,000

Provenance: Gaston Lévy, Paris; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 17 November 1932, lot 53 (illustrated in the catalogue).
Private collection, Paris, by 1946.
Mr & Mrs William Goetz, Los Angeles; their sale, Christie's, New York, 14 November 1988, lot 5.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 26 June 2001, lot 184.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature: F.J. Beer, Pierre Bonnard, Marseille, 1947, p. 74 (illustrated pl. 54).
A.M. Frankfurter, 'The Goetz Collection', in Art News, September 1951, p. 56.
J. & H. Dauberville, Bonnard, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, vol. I, 1888-1905, Paris, 1966, no. 336 (illustrated p. 303).

Exhibited: San Francisco, Palace of the Legion of Honor, The Collection of Mr and Mrs William Goetz, April - May 1959, no. 2 (illustrated).
Tokyo, Musée des Beaux-Arts Sompo Japan Seiji Togo, Exposition Pierre Bonnard, April - June 2004, no. 13 (illustrated p. 55); this exhibition later travelled to Kagoshima, Musée Municipal des Beaux-Arts and Tokushima, Musée Préfectoral des Arts Modernes.
Rome, Complesso del Vittoriano, Matisse e Bonnard, Viva la pittura!, October 2006 - February 2007, no. 209 (illustrated p. 462).

Christie's.  Impressionist + Modern Works on Paper. 5 February 2008, 10:00 am & 2:00 pm. 8 King Street, St James's, London