1867–1947 · Post-Impressionism. Wikipedia
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. A founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis, his early work was strongly influenced by the work of Paul Gauguin, as well as the prints of Hokusai and other Japanese artists. Bonnard was a leading figure in the transition from Impressionism to Modernism. He painted landscapes, urban scenes, portraits and intimate domestic scenes, where the backgrounds, colors and painting style usually took precedence over the subject.
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. Bonnard often painted its subject, the art dealer Ambroise Vollard. He is seen seated in a room, with a cat on his lap, surrounded by works of art, several paintings and a sculpture.
Dining Room in the Country is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Pierre Bonnard, created in 1913. It is held at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. In 1912, Bonnard bought a country house in Verbon, a small town on the Seine, which was called "Ma Roulotte" (My Caravan). The current painting, created in 1913, depicts the dining room of his country house. On the canvas he presents cats sitting on chairs, and Martha, his wife, leaning on a windowsill. A large table, with a white towel, appears in the foreground, while a arms chair appears to the right, and another one is partially seen at the left. The door and the window are wide open and also open the space of the painting to the landscape outside. Bonnard in this work was able to emphasize the expressive qualities of bright colors and large strokes. He combined the interior of the room with the "outside world", the garden seen through an open window and door, and connected different forms through playing with shades. However, unlike most impressionist painters, Bonnard created this canvas entirely from memory.
Le Chat blanc, par Pierre Bonnard
Nude Against the Light or Backlit Nude (French: Nu à contre-jour) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French Post-Impressionist painter Pierre Bonnard, from 1908. It is now in the collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, in Brussels. The work depicts the artist's partner and frequent model Marthe de Mėrigny applying eau de Cologne, after a bath in a tub. She is nude and standing silhouetted against the windows, which fills the room with bright, warm, shadowless light and color. The bather, Marthe de Mėrigny, is reflected in a mirror, a characteristic feature of Bonnard's paintings.
Two Dogs (French: Deux Chiens) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Pierre Bonnard, created in 1891. It is held at the Southampton City Art Gallery, in Southampton. In 1891, Bonnard entered a competition to design dining room furniture. Although his project never materialized, Bonnard used an already existing cabinet door design for his painting Two Dogs. The painting depicts two brown poodles playing, one up and other down, both barking, in a green floor, while two flowers can be seen at the right. The poodles may have been modeled on Bonnard's own dog, Ravageau. The simple but expressive composition, as well as the use of several "color blocks" shows the artist's interest in Japanese prints. In this work, along with the painting Study for a Cat (1890), Bonnard tries to use the influence of the Japanese masters and revive pure decorativeness with life impressions. At the same time, dark dogs are often a repetitive and important theme for the artist.
Painting by Pierre Bonnard
Normand Landscape is an oil painting by the French artist Pierre Bonnard, from 1920. It is held in the collection of the Unterlinden Museum in Colmar, Alsace (inventory number 81.3.1). It depicts a landscape in Normandy, in a vertical format. The motif was painted from memory in the artist's studio, not en plein air. The painting was bought as soon as it was finished, in 1920, by the gallery Bernheim-Jeune, from which it was bought six decades later by the Société Schongauer which administers the Colmar museum. A later Bonnard painting, Landscape in Normandy (1930), today belongs to the Smith College Museum of Art in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Painting by Pierre Bonnard
Painting by Pierre Bonnard
Painting by Pierre Bonnard
The Parade Ground
Painting by Pierre Bonnard