The Window (La Fenêtre) (1925)

Pierre Bonnard

oil on canvas

Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives

Photo credit: Tate

Classification:

Painting

Materials:

Oil, Canvas

Physical Object Description:

Oil painting of window overlooking a little town in the South of France.

Dimensions:

108.6 x 88.6 (without frame) cm

Accession Number:

N04494

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1931

Scheme:

Gift

Ownership history:

Purchased from the artist by Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 16 February 1927; with the Independent Gallery, London, 1927; bought by Lord Ivor Charles Spencer-Churchill (1898 - 1956) by whom gifted to the Contemporary Art Society, 1931; presented to the Tate Gallery, 1931

Relationship:

Bernheim-Jeune, Paris Independent Gallery, London Percy Moore Turner Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives Ivor Charles Spencer-Churchill

Subject:

Landscape, Interiors

This view was painted from an apartment at Le Cannet in the South of France, where Bonnard and his wife, Marthe - who can be seen on the balcony – stayed before buying Villa du Bosquet. On the table is the novel Marie by Peter Nansen, for which Bonnard drew the illustrations (1898).

It was purchased from the artist by the dealer Bernheim-Jeune in Paris on 16 February 1927 and subsequently bought by Lord Ivor Charles Spencer-Churchill (1898-1956) from his friend Percy Moore Turner (1877-1950) of the Independent Gallery, London. He gifted it to the Contemporary Art Society in 1931 - along with The Bath (Baignoire, Le Bain) also by Bonnard - who presented it to the Tate in the same year. Spencer-Churchill was a Committee Member (1927-49) of the Contemporary Art Society (1927-49) and its Hon. Secretary (1926-38) donating 21 pictures, and buying 14 artworks, as a CAS elected buyer, to present to UK museums.

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