Pierre Bonnard: The Late Still Lifes and Interiors, 2009, HC, Near Fine

Amory, Dita (Ed.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009.

English, First Edition, Near Fine, HC, Folio, 9 ½” x 12 ½,” 194 pp.

Blue cloth over boards, yellow stamped titling to spine, yellow textured endpapers and pastedowns, in publisher’s red dust jacket with full-color painting to front, white and black text to front, yellow, black, and white text to spine and inside gate flaps. Very mild edgewear, otherwise clean throughout, tightly bound, and excellent. In a Near Fine dust jacket now protected in a Mylar sleeve. Light sticker residue to back, minor pressure indentations to back, mild shelfwear to Mylar sleeve, otherwise excellent. 194 pp. Replete with 146 illustrations, 125 full-color (from dust jacket). Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name at the Metropolitan Museum of Art January 27 - April 19, 2009. Essays by Dita Amory, Rika Burnham, Jack Flam, et al. A monograph exhibition and writing on Bonnard’s later paintings of everyday life, with an emphasis on his still lifes and interior scenes. From the dust jacket: “Although Bonnard’s legacy may be removed from the succession of trends that today we consider the foundation of modernism, his contribution to French art in the early decades of the twentieth century is far more profound than history has generally acknowledged.”