*PIERRE BONNARD (1867-1947) France Champagne. Affiche. 1891. Lithographie. 570 x 765 [600 x 805]. Bouvet 1. Impression en couleurs. Bonne épreuve anciennement doublée sur vélin fort. Rousseurs éparses. Fines craquelures perceptibles dans le sujet, notamment dans la lettre en tête. Longue déchirure de 9 cm au bord gauche, anciennement consolidée (mais de nouveau fracturée). Petit reste d adhésif en tête au verso. « Bonnard was twenty-two when he made this publicity poster for a brand of champagne. It was his first important commission, for which he received 100 francs, a considerable sum that persuaded his sceptical parents that one could actually earn a living as an artist. The design was a sensational success. In May 1891 he wrote proudly to his mother that everyone wanted to have his poster. Paris was used to Jules Chéret s posters of elegant ladies, and for Bonnard, too, they had served as an example, but the young artist went a great deal further in the stylization and abstraction of the image. He combined the naughty elegance of Chéret s depictions with a playful, almost caricatural figure and the black contours and arabesques of Japanese prints. Shortly before Bonnard designed this poster, he had gone to the Paris World Fair and visited the Volpini exhibition, where he had seen Gauguin s Volpini Suite, printed on yellow paper. His admiration of that series of prints is clearly reflected in this poster, which is conceived almost whollly in yellow and graphic black. » (Fleur Roos Rosa de Carvalho, Marije Vellekop, Printmaking in Paris; The Rage for prints at the fin de siècle, Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, 2012, p. 148). Tous les lots de cette vente sont soumis à 5,5 % de frais additionnels au titre de la taxe à l importation temporaire. En cas de réexportation en dehors de l Union Européenne, ces frais pourront faire l objet d un remboursement à l acquéreur.