
Pierre Bonnard Painting Reproductions 2 of 3
1867-1947
French Nabi Painter
Pierre Bonnard (October 3, 1867 - January 23, 1947) was a French painter and printmaker, a founding member of Les Nabis.
Bonnard was born in Fontenay-aux-Roses. He led a happy and careless youth as the son of a prominent official of the French Ministry of War. At the insistence of his father, Bonnard studied law, graduating and practising as a barrister briefly. However, he had also attended art classes on the side, and soon decided to become an artist.
In 1891 he met Toulouse-Lautrec and began showing his work at the annual exhibition of the Societe des Artistes Independants. His first show was at the Galerie Durand-Ruel in 1896.
In his twenties he was a part of Les Nabis, a group of young artists committed to creating work of symbolic and spiritual nature. Other Nabis include Edouard Vuillard and Maurice Denis. He left Paris in 1910 for the south of France.
Bonnard is known for his intense use of color, especially via areas built with small brushmarks and close values. His often complex compositions typically of sunlit interiors of rooms and gardens populated with friends and family members are both narrative and autobiographical. His wife Marthe was an ever-present subject over the course of several decades. She is seen seated at the kitchen table, with the remnants of a meal; or nude, as in a series of paintings where she reclines in the bathtub. He also painted several self-portraits, landscapes, and many still lifes which usually depict flowers and fruit.
Bonnard did not paint from life but rather drew his subject sometimes photographing it as well and made notes on the colors. He then painted the canvas in his studio from his notes.
In 1938 there was a major exhibition of his work along with Vuillard's at the Art Institute of Chicago. He finished his last painting, The Almond Tree in Flower, a week before his death in Le Cannet, on the French Riviera, in 1947. The Museum of Modern Art in New York City organized a posthumous retrospective of Bonnard's work in 1948, although originally it was meant to be a celebration of the artist's eightieth birthday.
Two major exhibitions of Bonnard's work took place in 1998: February through May at the Tate Gallery in London, and from June through October at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Bonnard was born in Fontenay-aux-Roses. He led a happy and careless youth as the son of a prominent official of the French Ministry of War. At the insistence of his father, Bonnard studied law, graduating and practising as a barrister briefly. However, he had also attended art classes on the side, and soon decided to become an artist.
In 1891 he met Toulouse-Lautrec and began showing his work at the annual exhibition of the Societe des Artistes Independants. His first show was at the Galerie Durand-Ruel in 1896.
In his twenties he was a part of Les Nabis, a group of young artists committed to creating work of symbolic and spiritual nature. Other Nabis include Edouard Vuillard and Maurice Denis. He left Paris in 1910 for the south of France.
Bonnard is known for his intense use of color, especially via areas built with small brushmarks and close values. His often complex compositions typically of sunlit interiors of rooms and gardens populated with friends and family members are both narrative and autobiographical. His wife Marthe was an ever-present subject over the course of several decades. She is seen seated at the kitchen table, with the remnants of a meal; or nude, as in a series of paintings where she reclines in the bathtub. He also painted several self-portraits, landscapes, and many still lifes which usually depict flowers and fruit.
Bonnard did not paint from life but rather drew his subject sometimes photographing it as well and made notes on the colors. He then painted the canvas in his studio from his notes.
In 1938 there was a major exhibition of his work along with Vuillard's at the Art Institute of Chicago. He finished his last painting, The Almond Tree in Flower, a week before his death in Le Cannet, on the French Riviera, in 1947. The Museum of Modern Art in New York City organized a posthumous retrospective of Bonnard's work in 1948, although originally it was meant to be a celebration of the artist's eightieth birthday.
Two major exhibitions of Bonnard's work took place in 1998: February through May at the Tate Gallery in London, and from June through October at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
60 Pierre Bonnard Paintings

The Street in Winter 1894
Oil Painting
$358
$358
Canvas Print
$53.84
$53.84
SKU: BON-4439
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 27.6 x 35.9 cm
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 27.6 x 35.9 cm
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA

Cafe Terrace 1898
Oil Painting
$450
$450
Canvas Print
$53.84
$53.84
SKU: BON-4440
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 47 x 64 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 47 x 64 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA

Interior The Terrasse Children 1899
Oil Painting
$522
$522
Canvas Print
$53.84
$53.84
SKU: BON-4441
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 31.1 x 54 cm
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 31.1 x 54 cm
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA

Paris Boulevard at Night 1900
Oil Painting
$450
$450
SKU: BON-4442
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: unknown
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: unknown
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA

Dining Room in the Country 1913
Oil Painting
$843
$843
Canvas Print
$64.84
$64.84
SKU: BON-4443
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 161.3 x 203.5 cm
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, USA
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 161.3 x 203.5 cm
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, USA

Wild Flowers 1920
Oil Painting
$593
$593
SKU: BON-4444
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: unknown
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: unknown
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA

The Dessert (After Dinner) c.1920
Oil Painting
$829
$829
Canvas Print
$77.90
$77.90
SKU: BON-4445
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 76.2 x 80 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 76.2 x 80 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA

Landscape Southern France c.1916/18
Oil Painting
$843
$843
Canvas Print
$57.27
$57.27
SKU: BON-4446
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 139 x 197.8 cm
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 139 x 197.8 cm
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

Earthly Paradise 1920
Oil Painting
$881
$881
Canvas Print
$63.81
$63.81
SKU: BON-4447
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 130 x 160 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 130 x 160 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA

Nude Yellow Background c.1924
Oil Painting
$460
$460
Canvas Print
$70.93
$70.93
SKU: BON-4448
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 57.2 x 49 cm
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 57.2 x 49 cm
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA

Woman with Dog 1924
Oil Painting
$536
$536
SKU: BON-4449
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: unknown
Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, USA
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: unknown
Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, USA

The Seine at Vernon 1925
Oil Painting
$829
$829
Canvas Print
$81.60
$81.60
SKU: BON-4450
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 108 x 108 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 108 x 108 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA

Boulevard Exelmans, Paris 1925
Oil Painting
$450
$450
Canvas Print
$59.21
$59.21
SKU: BON-4451
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 42.2 x 52 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 42.2 x 52 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA

The Port of Cannes 1927
Oil Painting
$522
$522
SKU: BON-4452
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: unknown
National Gallery of Art, Ottawa, Canada
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: unknown
National Gallery of Art, Ottawa, Canada

The Road to Nantes 1929
Oil Painting
$701
$701
Canvas Print
$78.35
$78.35
SKU: BON-4453
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 69.2 x 66.2 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 69.2 x 66.2 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA

Pitcher with Flowers c.1935
Oil Painting
$894
$894
Canvas Print
$53.84
$53.84
SKU: BON-4454
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 95.2 x 44.7 cm
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 95.2 x 44.7 cm
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA

The Checkered Tablecloth 1939
Oil Painting
$740
$740
Canvas Print
$81.60
$81.60
SKU: BON-4455
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 58.4 x 58.4 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 58.4 x 58.4 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA

The Terrace at Vernon 1939
Oil Painting
$857
$857
SKU: BON-4456
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: unknown
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: unknown
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Still Life Cherries c.1942
Oil Painting
$340
$340
Canvas Print
$53.84
$53.84
SKU: BON-4457
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 15.9 x 22.5 cm
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 15.9 x 22.5 cm
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA

Table Laid for Dessert c.1924
Oil Painting
$385
$385
Canvas Print
$54.16
$54.16
SKU: BON-4458
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 38 x 56 cm
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 38 x 56 cm
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

Landscape c.1935
Oil Painting
$425
$425
Canvas Print
$53.84
$53.84
SKU: BON-4459
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 34.4 x 46.2 cm
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 34.4 x 46.2 cm
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

Garden: Meadow in Bloom c.1935
Oil Painting
$740
$740
SKU: BON-16659
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 90.2 x 90.5 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 90.2 x 90.5 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

The Poppies 1912
Oil Painting
$451
$451
SKU: BON-16804
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 51 x 43 cm
Musee des Beaux-Arts et d'Archeologie, Troyes, France
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 51 x 43 cm
Musee des Beaux-Arts et d'Archeologie, Troyes, France

The Checkered Blouse 1892
Oil Painting
$418
$418
SKU: BON-16805
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 61 x 33 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 61 x 33 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France