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Some one hundred of his best works from private collections and public institutions from around the world highlight the intense vibrant colors of modernity that revolutionized painting in the first half of the 20th century.
With the tip of his brush, Pierre Bonnard captures the time that passes with infinite tenderness. He gives eternity to memories in a cascade of emotions with intense colors.
During 35 years of a career, the artist has always appealed to his memory to revive on his sensual and melancholic paintings, lands- capes and intimate scenes of his daily life.
The lively and joyous tints fill empty parts, moments that have disappeared. Stolen glances, seen from a window, furtive sil- houettes arise from the past to linger on his paintings in uncon- ventional compositions of his time.
Pierre Bonnard likes to represent quiet, contemplative characters, indifferent to the eyes of their spectators, just like his landscapes that nothing seems to disturb in the density of their foliage. His wife, Martha de Meligny, was ill all her life and had to be treated by hydrotherapy. Pierre Bonnard painted his intimate scenes of baths and toilet and his works are among the most emblematic.
This intimate intimacy shared with his wife is a true psychological thread caught in delicate touches.
Pierre Bonnard (1867 – 1947) The Window 1925
Oil paint on canvas 1086 x 886 mm