Thursday, May 29, 2025

Bonnard

Pierre Bonnard
Boules de Neige
1892
oil on canvas
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri


Pierre Bonnard
Le Canotage
ca. 1896-97
lithograph
Saint Louis Art Museum

Pierre Bonnard
The Lesson
1898
oil on board
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Pierre Bonnard
The Orchard
ca. 1899
lithograph
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Pierre Bonnard
Les Boulevards
ca. 1900
lithograph
San Diego Museum of Art

Pierre Bonnard
Lane at Vernonnet
ca. 1912-14
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Pierre Bonnard
Dining Room in the Country
1913
oil on canvas
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Pierre Bonnard
Misia on Divan
ca. 1914
oil on canvas
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Pierre Bonnard
Basket of Fruit
1922
oil on canvas
Saint Louis Art Museum

Pierre Bonnard
Palm Trees at Le Cannet
1924
oil on canvas
Manchester Art Gallery

Pierre Bonnard
Port of Cannes
1927
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Pierre Bonnard
Portrait of Leila Claude Anet
1930
oil on canvas
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Pierre Bonnard
L'Armoire Blanche
1931-32
oil on canvas
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Pierre Bonnard
Dining Room on the Garden
1934-35
oil on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Pierre Bonnard
Still Life: Preparation for Lunch
1940
watercolor and gouache on paper
Art Institute of Chicago

Henri Cartier-Bresson
Pierre Bonnard
1944
gelatin silver print
(in the photo, the painting on the wall next to Bonnard's head
was copied at about this time by Jacques Villon, as seen below)
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Jacques Villon after Pierre Bonnard
The Red Carpet
ca. 1945
lithograph
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

from In Nine Sleep Valley

Yesterday's flower, American Beauty,
Crimson and sweet all night in the city,
Limp now, changed in import as in color,
Floats behind us in the tinkling cooler.

Yesterday also Robert Kennedy's
Train of refrigerated dignitaries
Last seen on TV burying Dr. King
Wormed its way to Arlington Cemetery.

The beauty I mean to press fading
Between these lines is yours, and the misleading
Sweetness, leaves and portals of a body
Ajar, cool, nodding at the wheel already.

– James Merrill (1972)