The Game of Checkers
Medium
color lithograph
Dimensions
image: 33 × 25.7 cm · sheet: 38 × 30.8 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of the Hanna Fund
Accession Number
1951.65.2
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
male
About this artwork
Ambroise Vollard (1865–1939), a dealer in Impressionist paintings, was also an important print publisher. In 1895 he commissioned his first portfolio from Pierre Bonnard: 12 color lithographs called Some Aspects of Paris Life (one of them is shown nearby). This was followed by many other albums of prints, including Vuillard's Landscapes and Interiors. Bonnard and Vuillard were members of a group of artists called the Nabis—the Hebrew word for "prophet"—which evokes both their playful mysticism a...