« Majestic cats » by the talented Pierre Bonnard

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The female nude was Rose Hilton's chief subject, building on the legacy of Bonnard and Matisse, the 90s saw abstracts, layered fields and veils of deliquescent colour, pointillist dots & dashes & dancing forms, her postmodernist homage to Patrick Heron.

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J'en profite pour vous rappeler que Pierre Bonnard, lui, est toujours à la recherche de ce talent (on ne le dit pas assez)

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Woman with Dog (also known as Marthe Bonnard and Her Dog), 1906

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“The main subject of painting is the surface, which has its colors and its laws beyond its objects.” --Pierre Bonnard

It's the FINAL DAYS of Bonnard to Vuillard: The Intimate Poetry of Everyday Life.

🎨Pierre Bonnard, The Little Laundry Girl (La petite blanchisseuse), 1896

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Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947), Snow Ball, Children And Dog In The Garden At Grand-lemps, 1947.

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« Les modérés sont des libéraux qui n’ont plus foi en eux-mêmes [...]. »
— Abel Bonnard, Les Modérés (1936)

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Whole lotta Matisse here, obvz. (And Matisse liked to include his own sculptures in paintings, of course, which is Bonnard's most likely immediate reference.)

These Matisses are 1907, 1927.

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Pierre Bonnard
Young Woman Writing

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Pierre Bonnard
La petite blanchisseuse 1889

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This striking screen marks a major turning point in Bonnard’s adoption of the Nabi aesthetic. Exhibition Bonnard to Vuillard: The Intimate Poetry of Everyday Life–The Nabi Collection of Vicki and Roger Sant
Pierre Bonnard
Stork and Four Frogs 1889

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