La Vie de Sainte-Monique

Artist Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867-1947)

Publisher Ambroise Vollard, éditeur, Paris, 1930

Author Ambroise Vollard (French, 1867-1939)

Date1930

DimensionsBook: H: 13 in. (330 mm); W: 10 3/16 in. (258 mm); Depth: 1 5/8 in. (41 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 13 in. (330 mm); W: 10 1/16 in. (255 mm).
Sheet (untrimmed): H: 12 13/16 in. (326 mm); W: 9 13/16 in. (250 mm).

MediumOriginal prints: 29 transfer lithographs and 17 etchings on Arches cream laid paper (incl. 3 plates as tables of illustrations on Arches cream wove paper); plus 178 wood engravings from drawings on the blocks by Bonnard (incl. suite of 37 rejected wood engravings), on Arches cream wove paper. Text: letterpress on Arches cream wove paper (typeface: Elzevir).

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss

Object number

1984.287

Not on View

Published Referencescf. Bouvet, Francis, Bonnard: The Complete Graphic Work, New York, 1981, no. 111, reprs.

cf. Johnson, Una E., Ambroise Vollard, Editeur: Prints, Books, Bronzes, New York, 1977, no. 170

cf. Catalogue complet des éditions Ambroise Vollard, Portique, Paris, 1930. (1984.438)

cf. Wheeler, Monroe, Modern Painters and Sculptors as Illustrators, New York, 1946, p. 98.