Portrait of Ambroise Vollard with a Cat

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Portrait of Ambroise Vollard with a Cat
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Artist Pierre Bonnard
Yearc.1924
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions96,5 cm× 111 cm(380 in× 44 in)
Location Petit Palais, Paris

Portrait of Ambroise Vollard with a Cat is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Pierre Bonnard, executed c. 1924. It is housed now in the Petit Palais in Paris. [1] Bonnard often painted its subject, the art dealer Ambroise Vollard.

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