Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947 )La Revue blanche. Poster. 1894. Lithograph. [620 x 805]. Bouvet 30. color print. Nice proof on thin vellum, formerly canvas-backed. Large gap filled and repainted in black above the word "revue". Fine creases and small blisters related to the canvas. All margins. First poster executed for the Revue blanche, a French artistic and literary magazine, created in 1891, which lasted until 1903. "The poster designed by Pierre Bonnard shows the street as a space where the magazine is displayed and distributed. Lithographed in four colors, this work was designed in the fall of 1894. It would have been sold and exhibited at the Galerie du n° 20 de la rue Laffitte from May to June 1895. The magazine's offices had already moved from the Rue des Martyrs to No. 1 Rue Laffitte, strategically located in the banking and art gallery district. The Revue blanche is located in the heart of the Parisian art market and its transactions. Taken up at a monographic exhibition of the artist at Durand-Ruel in 1896, Bonnard's poster hardly seems destined for an ephemeral status. Jules Chéret had imported a "posteromania" from England, from which Bonnard drew inspiration while developing a more abstract and decorative language, even more so than Toulouse-Lautrec, who produced a second poster for the magazine in 1895. Even though the poster as a medium is an experience of the street, Bonnard here uses the urban space to designate the magazine. In a tight frame, three figures can be seen outside in a continuum of black and gray: a female figure dressed in a worldly, wintry fashion (perhaps inspired by Misia Natanson), a young boy reminiscent of a newsboy, and a man, presumably seen from behind, wearing a top hat. Bonnard has certainly been depicting women on Parisian sidewalks since 1889, but it is the choice of this theme for an avant-garde literary journal that is intriguing, especially since the painter is as well known for his scenes of intimacy and interiors as Félix Vallotton or Édouard Vuillard." (Clément Dessy, "An Aesthetic of the Street. La Revue blanche au cœur de la ville," in Romantisme, 2016/1 (No. 171), pp. 74-88).