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Pierre Bonnard
Pierre Bonnard was a French painter, illustrator and printmaker, known especially for the stylized decorative qualities of his paintings and his bold use of color. A founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis, his early work was strongly influenced by the work of Paul Gauguin, as well as the prints of Hokusai and other Japanese artists. Bonnard was a leading…
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culture · French painter and printmaker (1867–1947) · painter · sculptor · printmaker · printer · illustrator · lithographer · visual artist · artist · also Pierre Bonnard, P'er Bonnar, Pierre Eugène Frédéric Bonnard, Pierre Eugene Frederic Bonnard, p. bonnard, bonnard p.
Born 3 October 1867 · Died 23 January 1947 · Q26408
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2016· 1 entry
The Legion of Honor in San Francisco hosted an exhibit "Pierre Bonnard: Painting Arcadia", featuring more than 70 works spanning the artist's entire career
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2014· 1 entry
The painting La femme aux Deux Fauteuils (Woman with Two Armchairs), with an estimated value of around €600,000 (£497,000), which had been stolen in London in 1970, was discovered in Italy
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2009· 1 entry
The exhibition "Pierre Bonnard: The Late Interiors" was shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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1975· 1 entry
At a railway lost-property sale, for 45,000 lira (about £32)
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1948· 1 entry
Although originally it was meant to be a celebration of the artist's 80th birthday
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1947· 6 entries
Died 1947-01-23.
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“En el momento en que uno dice que es feliz ya no es feliz.”
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“No todo el que canta está contento.”
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“I have all my subjects to hand. I go back and look at them. I take notes. Then I go home. And before I start painting I reflect, I dream.”
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Christian Zervos assessed the artist in terms of his relationship to Impressionism, and found him wanting
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Finished his last painting, The Almond Tree in Blossom, a week before his death in his cottage on La Route de Serra Capeou near Le Cannet, on the French Riviera
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1938· 1 entry
Bonnard and Vuillard's works were featured at an exposition at the Art Institute of Chicago
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1923· 1 entry
And in 1924 was honored with a retrospective of sixty-eight of his works at the Galerie Druet
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1920· 1 entry
Completed a series of large compositions, including La Pastorale, Méditterranée, La Paradis Terreste and Paysage de Ville
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1918· 1 entry
Was selected, along with Renoir, as an honorary President of the Association of Young French Artists
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1909· 1 entry
And, in 1911, began a series of decorative panels, called Méditerranée, for the Russian art patron Ivan Morozov
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1908· 1 entry
Illustrated a book of poetry by Octave Mirbeau, and made his first long stay in the South of France, at the home of the painter Manguin in Saint-Tropez
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1905· 1 entry
Produced a series of nudes and of portraits, and in 1906 had a personal exposition at the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery
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1900· 1 entry
And also produced 109 lithographs for Parallèment, a book of poems by Paul Verlaine
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1899· 1 entry
Took part in another major exposition of works of the Nabis
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1895· 2 entries
Became an early participant of the movement of Art Nouveau, designing a stained glass window, called Maternity, for Tiffany
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Had his first individual exposition of paintings, posters and lithographs at the Durand-Ruel Gallery
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1894· 1 entry
Turned in a new direction and made a series of paintings of scenes of the life of Paris
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1893· 2 entries
From 1893 until her death, Bonnard lived with Marthe de Méligny (1869–1942), and she was the model for many of his paintings, including many nudes.
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A major exposition of works of Utamaro and Hiroshige was held at the Durand-Ruel Gallery, and the Japanese influence, particularly the use of multiple points of view, and the use of bold geometric patterns in clothing, s
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1892· 1 entry
Began creating lithographs, and painted Le Corsage a carreaux and La Partie de croquet
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1891· 1 entry
Bonnard met Toulouse-Lautrec and, in December 1891, showed his work at the annual exhibition of the Société des Artistes Indépendants
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1890· 2 entries
Maurice Denis, at age twenty, formalized the doctrine in which a painting was considered "a surface plane covered with colors assembled in a certain order"
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Bing organized an important exhibition of seven hundred prints he had brought from Japan, and made a donation of Japanese art to the Louvre
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1888· 2 entries
Bonnard was accepted by the École des Beaux-Arts, where he met Édouard Vuillard and Ker Xavier Roussel
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Failed in the examination for entering the official registry of lawyers
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1867· 1 entry
Born 1867-10-03.
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