Lot 31
PAUL BONY (FRENCH 1917-1998) §
STAINED GLASS WINDOW, 1947
Auction: 30 October from 10:00 GMT
Description
inscribed and dated PAUL BONY 1947, stained glass
Dimensions
194cm high, 57cm wide, 3cm deep (76 3/8in high, 22 3/8in wide, 1 1/8in deep)
Provenance
Private Collection, U.K.
Footnote
Paul Bony was a French master glassmaker whose collaborations with Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall and Georges Rouault helped translate their designs into stained glass. He worked closely with Matisse on the windows for the Chapelle du Rosaire at Vence, a project conceived in 1947 and completed in 1951. Bony’s technical expertise was essential to realising Matisse’s carefully judged interplay of blue, green and yellow glass, which fills the chapel’s white interior with coloured light.