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| Pastel 20x28.5 cm
PROVENANCE: Succession Bonnard
Stamped with SignatureCertificate; Stern Art Dealer (London) Estate of the artist Acquired from the above by the family of the present owners in 1996 | Pencil Drawing 20x25 cm
PROVENANCE: Succession Bonnard
Stamped with SignatureCertificate; Stern Art Dealer (London) Estate of the artist Acquired from the above by the family of the present owners in 1996 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Pierre Bonnard (3 October 1867 – 23 January 1947) was born in Fontenay-aux-Roses, Hauts-de-Seine. He was a French painter and printmaker, a founding member of Les Nabis.
Pierre Bonnard began his long painting career in Paris in the early 1890s. He was one of the first artists to use pure color in flat patterns enlivened by decorative linear arabesques in paintings, posters, and designs for stained-glass windows and books. Together with his friend Edouard Vuillard and the other members of the group known as the Nabis (Hebrew for "prophets"), he helped establish a new, modern style of decoration that was important for the emergence of Art Nouveau in the late 1890s.
Throughout the remainder of his career, Bonnard continued and expanded the impressionists' concern for depicting the personal environment of the artist. His naturalism, however, was merely a starting point for striking innovations in color and the construction of perspective. His entire stylistic evolution offers a transition from impressionism to a coloristic, abstract art.
Source: The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Release #9.01, ©1997.
Bonnard was not a revolutionary artist but he synthesized several different styles to create works of striking painterliness and memorably glorious color.
He borrowed a lightness from the Impressionists, a bold palette from the Post-Impressionists and Fauves, a compressed dimensionality from Matisse and added an immense intensity of his own.
His oeuvre combines the poignancy of Degas with the lyricism and luminosity of Rothko.
By Carter B. Horsley
Pierre Bonnard Quotes:
A painting that is well composed is half finished.
Art will never be able to exist without nature. Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it. Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. It is still color, it is not yet light. The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible. The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing. Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole. You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself. You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.
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Saturday, February 28, 2015
Pierre Bonnard - French Nabi Painter, (1867-1947)
Rosa (Marie-Rosalie) Bonheur (1822 - 1899)
| Rosa (Marie-Rosalie) Bonheur (1822 - 1899) |
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| Untitled, Oil on Canvas (Glued to Board) Size 14.5 x 9" Signature, Close Up 1, Close Up 2 |
 Rarely during the nineteenth century did the artistic career and recognition of a woman eclipse that of her male counterparts. History recognizes few females from this period in the position of artistic authority, but Rosa Bonheur established herself as the foremost “animalier,” or animal painter, linked with landscape painting and the Realist tradition.Rosa was a French realist painter and sculptor. Her father was a landscape painter taught by Henri de Saint-Simon. She was the sister of artist Auguste Bonheur and sculptor Isidore Jules Bonheur and the instructor of Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, with whom she later resided. She was taught to paint by her father, and showed great affinity for animals. She made them her specialty. She was influenced by the English animal painter Sir Edwin Henry Landseer. She also studied animal anatomy and prepared sketches and detailed studies before beginning to work on her paintings and sculptures.  Rosa was considered the most famous woman artist of her time, and was represented by several private art galleries. She is perhaps most famous today because she was known for wearing men's clothing, and is now seen as an early feminist. She lived for fifty years with her female companion Nathalie Micas at her country estate near Fontainebleau. After Micas' death, she taught and lived with the American painter Anna Elizabeth Klumpke. She died at the age of 77. Many of her paintings, which had not been shown publicly, were sold at auction in Paris in 1900. Source: angeloilpainting.com |
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