NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced its upcoming Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale on May 4 will include Pierre Bonnard’s Le petit déjeuner, an important interior scene from the artist’s last decade, a significant period of modernist innovation for the artist. Previously featured in museum retrospectives of the artist’s work at the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, among others, this radiant 1936 painting has been in the private collection of the late arts patron Evelyn Annenberg Jaffe Hall since it was acquired more than sixty years ago. Thanks to increased scholarship on this mature period in Bonnard’s career in recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in Bonnard’s late, great paintings and a re-appraisal of his importance within the canon of 20th century art. In the past 12 months alone, the world auction record price for any work by the