Pierre Bonnard Painting Reproductions 3 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.
58 Pierre Bonnard Paintings
The Large Garden 1895
Oil Painting
$704
$704
SKU: BON-16889
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 168 x 221 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 168 x 221 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
Nude in Bathtub c.1940/46
Oil Painting
$621
$621
Canvas Print
$61.71
$61.71
SKU: BON-17098
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 122.5 x 150.5 cm
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 122.5 x 150.5 cm
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Young Woman at Her Toilette 1916
Oil Painting
$641
$641
Canvas Print
$57.08
$57.08
SKU: BON-18137
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 61.6 x 92 cm
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 61.6 x 92 cm
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA
Cover of the Album of Original Prints from the ... 1897
Paper Art Print
$48.47
$48.47
SKU: BON-18652
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 55.9 x 87 cm
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 55.9 x 87 cm
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
The Full-Length Mirror 1910
Oil Painting
$574
$574
Canvas Print
$50.90
$50.90
SKU: BON-18653
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 124.4 x 82.5 cm
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 124.4 x 82.5 cm
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
The Violet Fence 1923
Oil Painting
$482
$482
Canvas Print
$56.24
$56.24
SKU: BON-18654
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 42 x 57 cm
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 42 x 57 cm
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
View from Uhlenhorst Ferry House on the Outer ... 1913
Oil Painting
$765
$765
Canvas Print
$55.96
$55.96
SKU: BON-18655
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 73 x 100.3 cm
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 73 x 100.3 cm
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
The Brumous Bay (Mistral-Sky) 1914
Oil Painting
$536
$536
Canvas Print
$50.90
$50.90
SKU: BON-19366
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 34 x 53 cm
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 34 x 53 cm
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
Nude with Red Cloth (Nude at her Toilet) 1915
Oil Painting
$642
$642
Canvas Print
$59.61
$59.61
SKU: BON-19367
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 62.4 x 48.2 cm
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 62.4 x 48.2 cm
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
Still Life with Bouquet of Flowers (Venus of Cyrene) 1930
Oil Painting
$786
$786
Canvas Print
$50.90
$50.90
SKU: BON-19368
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 60 x 130.3 cm
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
Pierre Bonnard
Original Size: 60 x 130.3 cm
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland