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Pierre Bonnard Boules de Neige 1892 oil on canvas Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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Pierre Bonnard Le Canotage ca. 1896-97 lithograph Saint Louis Art Museum |
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Pierre Bonnard The Lesson 1898 oil on board North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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Pierre Bonnard The Orchard ca. 1899 lithograph National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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Pierre Bonnard Les Boulevards ca. 1900 lithograph San Diego Museum of Art |
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Pierre Bonnard Lane at Vernonnet ca. 1912-14 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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Pierre Bonnard Dining Room in the Country 1913 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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Pierre Bonnard Misia on Divan ca. 1914 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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Pierre Bonnard Basket of Fruit 1922 oil on canvas Saint Louis Art Museum |
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Pierre Bonnard Palm Trees at Le Cannet 1924 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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Pierre Bonnard Port of Cannes 1927 oil on canvas National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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Pierre Bonnard Portrait of Leila Claude Anet 1930 oil on canvas Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
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Pierre Bonnard L'Armoire Blanche 1931-32 oil on canvas Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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Pierre Bonnard Dining Room on the Garden 1934-35 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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Pierre Bonnard Still Life: Preparation for Lunch 1940 watercolor and gouache on paper Art Institute of Chicago |
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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)