La Vie de Sainte-Monique
La Vie de Sainte-Monique
Artist
Pierre Bonnard
French, 1867-1947
Publisher
Ambroise Vollard, éditeur, Paris, 1930
Printer
Aimé Jourde
Paris
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).
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
Collections
Published Referencescf. Bouvet, Francis, Bonnard: The Complete Graphic Work, New York, 1981, no. 111, reprs.
- Works on Paper
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.
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