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Auction House: Christie's
Auction Location: United Kingdom
Auction Date: 2009
Description: LÉON JOSEPH FLORENTIN BONNAT (FRENCH, 1833-1922)
The fond embrace
signed and dated 'L
oil on canvas, tondo, unframed
28½ in. diameter
Provenance: Sotheby's New York, 27 January 2007, lot 699.
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Like William Bouguereau, who was Bonnat's contemporary and reputed rival, Bonnat was elected to the Academie and became a professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Among his students were Raoul Dufy, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (who the older artist reputedly did not care for). In 1905, Bonnat became Directeur of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
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