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Artists›Émile Bernard

Émile Bernard

1868–1941

WA-00021428

PaintingPointillismSymbolismImpressionism

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

648

Works in Collection

1305

Assets Indexed

Authority-backed Facts

Publications Referenced

80%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ264193

MoMA

Field Verification (4 fields)

1 cross-verified · 3 single-source

Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
LocationArtsy· 85%
NationalityArtsy· 85%
BiographyGallery Generic· 72%

Source Registry (3)

Sothebyshttps://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/emile-bernard
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/511
Tier 1 · Institutional92%
Wikidata
Tier 1 · Institutional40%

About

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Graph relationships

Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Pointillism

Medium

Painting

Related Artists

12 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

Rijksmuseum Museum of Modern ArtNew York Art Institute of Chicago National Gallery of Art

Canonical record

Artworks (648)

The Artist's Daughter

1933 · Woodcut, with watercolor additions

composition: 7 3/8 x 5 5/16" (18.8 x 13.5 cm); sheet: 9 7/16 x 12 5/8" (24 x 32 cm)

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Plate (page 30) from L'ODYSSÉE

1930 · Woodcut and pochoir, printed in color

composition 9 1/4 x 6 1/2" (23.5 x 16.6 cm)

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Plate (page 76) from L'ODYSSÉE

1930 · Woodcut and pochoir, printed in color

composition 9 1/4 x 6 7/16" (23.5 x 16.4 cm)

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Plate (page 230) from L'ODYSSÉE

1930 · Woodcut and pochoir, printed in color

composition 9 1/4 x 6 1/2" (23.5 x 16.5 cm)

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L'Odyssée

1930 · Illustrated book with 51 woodcuts and pochoirs

page (irreg.): 14 15/16 x 11 1/4" (38 x 28.5 cm)

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Tailpiece (page 28) from L'ODYSSÉE

1930 · Woodcut, printed in color

composition 2 13/16 x 3 5/8" (7.1 x 9.2 cm)

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Plate (facing page 44) from L'ODYSSÉE

1930 · Woodcut and pochoir, printed in color

composition 9 1/4 x 6 1/2" (23.5 x 16.5 cm)

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Plate (page 174) from L'ODYSSÉE

1930 · Woodcut and pochoir, printed in color

composition 9 1/4 x 6 1/2" (23.5 x 16.5 cm)

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Plate (facing page 166) from L'ODYSSÉE

1930 · Woodcut and pochoir, printed in color

composition 9 1/4 x 6 9/16" (23.5 x 16.7 cm)

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Plate (facing page 194) from L'ODYSSÉE

1930 · Woodcut and pochoir, printed in color

composition 9 1/4 x 6 1/2" (23.5 x 16.6 cm)

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Plate (page 156) from L'ODYSSÉE

1930 · Woodcut and pochoir, printed in color

composition 9 1/8 x 6 7/16" (23.2 x 16.3 cm)

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Plate (facing page 80) from L'ODYSSÉE

1930 · Woodcut and pochoir, printed in color

composition 9 1/4 x 6 1/2" (23.5 x 16.6 cm)

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Frontispiece from L'ODYSSÉE

1930 · Woodcut and pochoir, printed in color

composition 9 1/4 x 6 9/16" (23.5 x 16.7 cm)

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Title page from L'ODYSSÉE, volume I

1930 · Woodcut, printed in color

composition 4 3/8 x 3 1/8" (11.2 x 8 cm)

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Plate (page 116) from L'ODYSSÉE

1930 · Woodcut and pochoir, printed in color

composition 9 3/16 x 6 1/2" (23.3 x 16.5 cm)

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Plate (facing page 24) from L'ODYSSÉE

1930 · Woodcut and pochoir, printed in color

composition 9 5/16 x 6 9/16" (23.6 x 16.7 cm)

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Variant of plate facing page 577 (supplementary suite, plate 49) from L'ODYSSÉE

1930 · Woodcut, printed in black

composition 9 5/16 x 6 5/8" (23.7 x 16.9 cm)

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Tailpiece (page 254) from L'ODYSSÉE

1930 · Woodcut, printed in color

composition 2 11/16 x 3 13/16" (6.8 x 9.7 cm)

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Plate (page 140) from L'ODYSSÉE

1930 · Woodcut and pochoir, printed in color

composition 9 1/4 x 6 5/8" (23.5 x 16.9 cm)

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Plate (facing page 130) from L'ODYSSÉE

1930 · Woodcut and pochoir, printed in color

composition 9 3/16 x 6 7/16" (23.3 x 16.4 cm)

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Tailpiece (page 284) from L'ODYSSÉE

1930 · Woodcut, printed in color

composition 2 5/8 x 3 13/16" (6.7 x 9.7 cm)

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Tailpiece (page 171) from L'ODYSSÉE

1930 · Woodcut, printed in color

composition 2 9/16 x 3 3/4" (6.5 x 9.5 cm)

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Tailpiece (page 114) from L'ODYSSÉE

1930 · Woodcut, printed in color

composition 2 13/16 x 3 13/16" (7.1 x 9.7 cm)

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Plate (page 52) from L'ODYSSÉE

1930 · Woodcut and pochoir, printed in color

composition 9 5/16 x 6 1/2" (23.7 x 16.6 cm)

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Artwork sources (3)

634 published of 1000 catalogued · 802 with image

MoMA
623 publishedof 989 catalogued791 img
Art Institute Chicago
6 published6 img
Rijksmuseum
5 published5 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 3)

3 entries · 1 sources

Treurende oude vrouwen
1918 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Brief aan Emile Ernest Bernard en Héloïse Bernard-Bodin
1894 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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Brief aan Sophie Bodin-Lallement
1892 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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Record

Images

18 assets

Artsy

Wikipedia

Rijksmuseum

Geborduurd tableau; Deux Baigneuses (1904)

Rijksmuseum

Rijksmuseum

Singer at the Café-Concert (1888, printed 1896)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Les Bretonneries: The Return from the Pilgrimage (Le Retour du Pardon) (1889, printed in 1896)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Les Bretonneries: Title Page (Page de Titre) (1889, printed 1896)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Relationships

Movements4

Pointillism Symbolism Impressionism Post-Impressionism

Collections5

Rijksmuseum Museum of Modern Art Art Institute of Chicago National Gallery of Art Christie's

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Rijksmuseum

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

National Gallery of Art

Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction

Auction house

Christie's

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Exhibitions and timeline

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