Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947), L'orgue de Barbarie ou Le joueur d'orgue

Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947)
L'orgue de Barbarie ou Le joueur d'orgue
signed and dated 'PBonnard 95' (lower center)
oil on board
16 1/8 x 10 3/8 in. (40.9 x 26.3 cm.)
Painted in 1895

Provenance
Roger Marx, Paris; Estate sale, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, 12 May 1914, lot 5.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Paris.
Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., London (acquired from the above, 1933).
Hugh Neame, France (possibly acquired from the above, 1935 and until at least 1949).
Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Tooth (by 1966).
E.V. Thaw & Co., Inc., New York (by 1979).
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 5 February 1981.

Pre-Lot Text
Property from the Estate of William Kelly Simpson

Literature
R. Cogniat, Bonnard, Paris, 1989, p. 17 (illustrated in color).
J. and H. Dauberville, Bonnard: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1888-1905, Paris, 1992, vol. I, p. 147, no. 91 (illustrated).
T. Hyman, Bonnard, London, 1998, pp. 46 and 217 (illustrated in color, p. 47, pl. 31; with incorrect support).

Exhibited
London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., Anthology: Loan Exhibition of French Pictures from Private Collections, June 1949, no. 24.
Paris, Musée du Louvre, Dans la lumière de Vermeer: cinq siècles de peinture, September-November 1966, no. 56 (illustrated).
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Pierre Bonnard: Winter Exhibition, 1966, p. 35, no. 17.
London, Royal Academy of Arts and Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Post-Impressionism: Cross Currents in European Painting, November 1979-March 1980, pp. 49-50, no. 32 (illustrated, p. 49).
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., La revue blanche: Paris in the Days of Post-Impressionism and Symbolism, November-December 1983, p. 83 (illustrated in color, p. 32; with incorrect support).
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts and New York, IBM Gallery of Science and Art, Pleasures of Paris: Daumier to Picasso, June-December 1991, pp. 66 and 181, no. 9 (illustrated in color, p. 66).
Kunsthaus Zürich and Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Die Nabis Propheten der Moderne, May 1993-January 1994, p. 126, no. 16 (illustrated in color).