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Pierre Bonnard was a French painter, illustrator, and printmaker, known especially for the stylized decorative qualities of his paintings and his bold use of color. He was a founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis, and his early work was strongly influenced by the work of Paul Gauguin, and the prints of ...
The vibrant late paintings of Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) are considered by many to be among his finest achievements. Working in a small covered bedroom of his villa in the south of France, Bonnard suffused his last canvases with radiant Mediterranean light and dazzling color. Although his subjects were close at hand-usually everyday scenes taken from his immediate surroundings, such as the ...
The scene is the bathroom of Bonnard’s own home and the woman naked at her toilette is the artist’s wife, Marthe, accompanied in the foreground by their dog, Pouce. Although Marthe appears in many of Bonnard’s paintings, seldom is her face fully visible, creating a sense of casual intimacy.
15 Feb 2019. Pierre Bonnard is largely regarded as a painter’s painter. The French post-impressionist might not be as well-known as his great friend Henri Matisse, but he shared a similar mastery of colour, which brought domestic interiors, portraits and luscious landscapes to life. In the biggest UK show to be mounted in 20 years, Tate ...
Bonnard's painting of the daily routine of bathing, done from memory, captures the details of light reflected in a mirror and pointy red slippers. The woman is probably Marthe (Maria Boursin; 1869–1942), whom Bonnard met in 1893 and married in 1925.
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Earthly Paradise. 1916–20. Following a period spent producing Parisian scenes in the style of Édouard Vuillard and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre Bonnard virtually reinvented his art around 1905. The artist’s new emphasis on large-scale compositions, bold forms, and brilliant colors shows his awareness of the work of his contemporaries ...
