Nude on the Chair
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| Artist | Pierre Bonnard |
| Year | 1935-1938 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 127 cm × 97 cm (50 in × 38 in) |
| Location | Museo Botero, Bogotá |
Nude on the Chair or Nude with Chair (French: Nu ë la chaise) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French Post-Impressionist painter Pierre Bonnard. Created between 1935 and 1938, it is now held in the collection of the Bank of the Republic and exhibited at the Museo Botero, in Bogotá.[1]
Description
[edit]The work depicts the artist's partner and frequent model Marthe de Mėrigny after a bath in a tub, most probably at the artist's home in Arcachon.[2] Marthe appears nude and standing on a white chair in the middle of the bathroom which appears as warm, shadowless, and light in color.
Fernando Botero, in hommage to Bonnard, interpreted Nude with Chair as an oil-on-canvas painting titled El baño (1999) which is also exhibited at the Museo Botero in Bogotá.[3][4]
Ownership and provenance
[edit]Nude with Chair remained part of Bonnard's estate, and later his inheritance, until his passing in 1947.[5] The painting was acquired by Fernando Botero from an anonymous art collector in Europe months before donating it to the Bank of the Republic to form the Museo Botero along with 207 other paintings and sculptures.[6]
Per Resolution 565, of 16 April 2012, of the Ministry of Culture of Colombia, the entirety of the Fernando Botero collection, including Nude on the Chair, was voted on by the National Council of Cultural Heritage as an asset of cultural interest for the nation.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Desnudo con silla (Nu ë la chaise) (Nude with chair) - Pintura". banrepcultural.org (in Spanish). Bogotá, Colombia: Banco de la República de Colombia. 2002. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
- ^ Quoted in Juan Manuel Bonet (2021), p. 72.
- ^ "Obras Comentadas El baño". banrepcultural.org (in Spanish). Bogotá, Colombia: Banco de la República de Colombia. 13 August 2020. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
- ^ "El baño". artsandculture.google.com/. Bogotá, Colombia: Banco de la República de Colombia. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
- ^ Quoted in Juan Manuel Bonet (2021), p. 72.
- ^ "Las obras donadas por Fernando Botero". revistaexclama.com (in Spanish). Revista Exclama. 2023. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
- ^ "LISTA DE BIENES DECLARADOS BIEN DE INTERÉS CULTURAL DEL ÁMBITO NACIONAL" (PDF). Ministerio de Cultura (in Spanish). Bogotá, Colombia. October 2023. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
Bibliography
[edit]- Caballero, Antonio. (2002). Colección Botero:en primera persona del singular. Bogotá: Banco de la República de Colombia. ISBN 958-664-102-3
- Bonet, Juan Manuel. (2021). Museo Botero. Bogotá: Banco de la República de Colombia. ISBN 978-958-664-419-8