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25.
View of Bordeaux with Basilica of Saint Michael and Pont de Pierre
c.
1930
-
31
Pencil on paper
5
x
6
5
⁄
16
inches (
12
.
7
x
16
cm.)
Stamped lower left
provenance
Hammer Galleries, New York;
Kyra Gerrard and Alfred Ayrton;
Patricia Learmonth, New York;
Estate of Barbara and Bernard Mars, Pittsburgh, PA.
In
1930
, Bonnard travelled to Arcachon, stopping in Bordeaux to change trains. This
view of the Basilica of Saint Michael would have been a short walking distance from
the old train station.