Parallèlement

1900

Pierre Bonnard

Artist, French, 1867 - 1947

Paul Verlaine

Author, French, 1844 - 1896

Marius Michel

Bookbinder, French, 1846-1925

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with an extra set of proofs behind the full illustrated text: 212 lithographs in rose sanguine; 9 wood-engraved ornaments after Bonnard in black; and 2 recto/verso drawings loose in volume: 1 in graphite; 1 in blue, black, and red pencil

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    book: 30.5 × 26 × 5 cm (12 × 10 1/4 × 1 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2014.112.35

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bouvet 1981, no. 73, proofs

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Daniel Sickles; (H. P. Kraus, 1962); Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; bequest of Paul Mellon [1907-1999] to NGA, with life interest retained for his wife, Rachel (Bunny) Lambert Mellon [1910-2014]; gift to NGA, 2014.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1991

  • Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniverary of the National Gallery of Art. NGA, Washington, DC, 1991, pp. 262-263 (entry by Virginia Tuttle Clayton).

2016

  • In Celebration of Paul Mellon, NGA, 2016.

Bibliography

1981

  • Bouvet, Francis. Bonnard: The Complete Graphic Work. New York: Rizzoli, 1981: no. 73, proofs.

1982

  • Ray, Gordon. The Art of the French Illustrated Book 1700 to 1914. New York, 1982: 504-505, no. 383A.

1989

  • Pierre Bonnard: The Graphic Art. Exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1989: 168 (fig. 120, reproducing rejected version of page 100), 229, under no. 82.

Inscriptions

by later hand in graphite upper left on fly-leaf: Ex. unique. c'est celui / de l'edition Vollard - [?] chi i par Marie Michel.- / [?] unique etat de touts / les lithographies [?]. / 12 planches inedites of # / non utilisier

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