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PublisherYale University Press

ISBN-100300148895

ISBN-139780300148893

eBay Product ID (ePID)71112481

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Book TitlePierre Bonnard : the Late Still Lifes and Interiors

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicHistory / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Individual Artists / General, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General

Publication Year2009

IllustratorYes

GenreArt

AuthorJacqueline Munck, Jack Flam

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight48.9 Oz

Item Length12.2 in

Item Width9.4 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2008-049975

Dewey Edition22

Reviewsï¿½. . . this handsome volume includes seventy-five carefully selected works from galleries and private collections from around the world . . . These works are fresh, engaging and superbly presented in a book that will warm the heart of each and every art lover.ï¿½ ï¿½ Good Book Guide, ". . . this handsome volume includes seventy-five carefully selected works from galleries and private collections from around the world . . . These works are fresh, engaging and superbly presented in a book that will warm the heart of each and every art lover." - Good Book Guide, ". . . this handsome volume includes seventy-five carefully selected works from galleries and private collections from around the world . . . These works are fresh, engaging and superbly presented in a book that will warm the heart of each and every art lover." - Good Book Guide

Dewey Decimal759.4

SynopsisWorking in his villa in the south of France, Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) suffused his late canvases with radiant Mediterranean light and dazzling color. Although his subjects were close at hand--usually everyday domestic scenes--Bonnard rarely painted from life. Instead, he made pencil sketches in diaries and relied on these, along with his memory, as he executed the works in his studio. These interiors thus often conflate details from the artist's daily life with fleeting, mysterious evocations of his past. The spectral figures who appear at the margins of the canvases, overshadowed by brilliantly colored baskets of fruit or other props, create an atmosphere of profound ambiguity and puzzling abstraction: the mundane rendered in a wholly new pictorial language. The 75 paintings, drawings, and watercolors in this volume, some rarely seen treasures from private collections, all made between 1923 and 1947, are central to the ongoing reappraisal of Bonnard as a leading figure of French modernism., Working in his villa in the south of France, Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) suffused his late canvases with radiant Mediterranean light and dazzling color. Although his subjects were close at hand--usually everyday domestic scenes--Bonnard rarely painted from life. Instead, he made pencil sketches in diaries and relied on these, along with his memory, as he executed the works in his studio. These interiors thus often conflate details from the artist's daily life with fleeting, mysterious evocations of his past. The spectral figures who appear at the margins of the canvases, overshadowed by brilliantly colored baskets of fruit or other props, create an atmosphere of profound ambiguity and puzzling abstraction: the mundane rendered in a wholly new pictorial language. The 75 paintings, drawings, and watercolors in this volume, some rarely seen treasures from private collections, all made between 1923 and 1947, are central to the ongoing reappraisal of Bonnard as a leading figure of French modernism.

LC Classification NumberN6853.B57A4 2009