Bonnard Pierre

Bonnard can safely be ranked among the best landscape painters of the XX century. From early youth, he subtly felt nature, believing it to be “the best cure for city

In the tenth years of the 20th century Cubism appeared on the European art scene. Seeing the work of the Cubists, Bonnard said to his nephew: “I was sent back

In this work, Bonnard does not yet have those bright, flickering colors that are characteristic of a later period of his work. Nevertheless, “Family on the terrace” is a very

Bonnard always kept in his heart the devotion and love for Normandy, as evidenced by his landscapes dedicated to this northern region of France. Two works are monumental: “Terrace”, where

A Frenchman by birth, a neo-impressionist painter, the symbolist Pierre Bonnard was one of the few foreign painters elected to the London Academy of Arts. Pierre Bonnard received a classical

In many of Bonnar’s paintings there are cats and dogs, which the artist loved very much. Most often, pets are secondary characters. So, a curious cat in “Checkered Blouse” helps

The model for this work was the sister of Bonnard Andre. The format of the picture and the choice of the plot reveal its connection with Japanese graphics. “The checkered

Having chosen Martha, Bonnard as the main model for her paintings, even after her muse left the earthly life, she did not forget about the attractiveness of her body. A

About four hundred times, according to the most conservative estimates, Marta de Meligny posed for Bonnard, while in the list of paintings there is not a single work where the

Unlike his friend Vuillard, who made a name for himself as a portrait painter, Bonnard did not often paint portraits. As a rule, he portrayed his relatives or friends on

This work refers to the period of “Nabis,” characterized by the artist’s passion for decorative and applied art. The original “Nanny for a walk” is a screen consisting of four

This is one of the many “naked” Bonnard models for which Marta Bonnard served. In 1931, Martha was already an elderly woman, but in the picture the viewer sees a

After numerous blows to the fate that befell Bonnard at the end of life, when his dear and close people left him for eternity, he does not cease to engage

The creative and freedom-loving nature of Bonnard resisted any restrictions, no matter what spheres of life, and even more so of art, this did not concern. His creative search is

As already noted, Bonnard was not a master of psychological portrait. But he was a master of psychological self-portrait. A series of his self-portraits has no equal in XX century