Pierre Bonnard: The Late Still Lifes and Interiors - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300148895 ISBN 13 : 9780300148893

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2009

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

Working in his villa in the south of France, Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) suffused his late canvases with radiant Mediterranean light and dazzling colour. 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 coloured 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 more than 75 paintings, drawings, watercolours, and gouaches in this volume, some rarely seen treasures from private collections, all painted between 1923 and 1947, are central to the ongoing reappraisal of Bonnard as a leading figure of French modernism.

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Dita Amory is Associate Curator, Robert Lehman Wing, The Metropolitan of Art, New York.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0300148895
• ISBN 13: 9780300148893
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208