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PIERRE BONNARD (1867-1947) LA REVUE BLANCHE. 1894. 30 3/4x24 7/8 inches. Edw. Ancourt, Paris. Condition A-: minor abrasion in image. Matted and framed. Bonnard's work for this literary magazine exemplifies his deep sense of observation, depicting a street scene with a young boy, a shivering woman, and a man wearing an ample overcoat and a top hat reading a wall of posters. He employs only four colors to make this street scene come alive. The boy's expression and the woman's attitude are small gems of representation, as is the single, solid mass of color that constitutes their clothing and the typography, which in one place is actually wrapped around the woman's leg. The intriguing image, from the "beguiling sloe-eyed Parisienne" to the "impertinent neckerchiefed newsboy," to the "top hatted figure bent over the newsstand behind [them]," . . . is one of Bonnard's "most audacious graphic designs" (Ives p. 105ff). Maitres pl. 38, DFP II 77, Word & Image p. 26, Modern Poster p. 8, Abdy p. 93, Maindron p. 41, Color Revolution p. 16, Affichomanie p. 109.
