Place Pigalle at Night | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1905–08

On view, 3rd floor, Modern and Contemporary Art and Design

Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 22 5/8 × 26 15/16 in. (57.5 × 68.4 cm)
framed: 30 3/4 × 35 1/4 × 3 1/4 in. (78.1 × 89.5 × 8.3 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Walter Bareiss, B.S. 1940S
Accession Number: 1955.23.1
Geography: Depicted Paris, France
Culture: French
Period: 20th century
Classification: Paintings
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Provenance

Octave Mirabeau, Paris; M. Gerard; M. de Wolmann; anonymous; Bernhiem-Jeune, Paris; Walter J. Bareiss, New York (bought from Berheim-Jeune in 1952). (Provenance according to Bareiss, letter, November 29, 1963.)

Bibliography

Susan Greenberg Fisher, "Above the Grid," in "Recent Acquisitions 2001–2003," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2004), 88, fig. 3

Michael Howard, Impressionism (London: Carlton Books Ltd, 1997)

F. Roy Willis, Western Civilization: An Urban Perspective (Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath and Company, 1973)

Francoise Forster-Hahn, French and School of Paris Paintings in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1968), 1, fig. 23

Pierre Courthion, Paris in Our Time (Lausanne, Switzerland: Albert Skira, 1957), 67, ill.

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

cityscapes (representations), human figures (visual works)

Subject

night

Signed

Lower left "Bonnard"

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