Nudes

Description This post-impressionist painter, together with Louis Anquetin (1861-1932) and Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), introduced "cloisonnism" (a term derived from cloisonné enameling) into French painting in 1887. Forms were reduced to their simplest shapes and separated by dark contours. Though this drawing dates from the 20th century, it still reflects advice Bernard gave early in his career: "You have to simplify the spectacle in order to make some sense of it. You have, in a way, to draw a plan."

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
1/01/2002	Examination	examined for exhibition

Exhibitions

• Expanding Horizons: Recent Additions to the Drawings Collection. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2010.

Provenance Paul Prouté, 74, rue de Sèvres, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [identified as "Minerva, Venus and Diana"]; Joseph F. McCrindle (1923-2008), New York, November 28, 1985, by purchase [#A1463]; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, New York, 2008, by bequest; Walters Art Museum, 2009, by gift.

Inscriptions [Transcription] on reverse: -4 and -AY

Credit Gift of the Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, 2009