1938 December. Loan exhibition of paintings and prints by Bonnard and Vuillard at the Art Institute of Chicago. 1939 February-April. Represented in Parijsche Schilders at the Municipal Museum, Amsterdam. March, Fifty-one paintings included in retrospective at Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm. 1940 April. Elected Honorary Academician by the Royal Academy of Arts, London (nominated by Augustus John). 1942 January 26. Death of Marthe Bonnard. 1943 Admitted to hospital suffering from severe congestion of the lungs. A number of fakes having appeared on the market, agrees to a suggestion made by Jean and Henry Dauberville that they should compile a catalogue raisonné of the oils. ©1998 The Museum of Modern Art, New York