Pierre Bonnard: The Late Still LIfes and Interiors
New Haven / New York: Yale University Press / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009.
Hardcover.
With contributions by Nicole R. Myers and Allison Stielau. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Met in New York from January 27 to April 19, 2009.
Working in his villa in the south of France, Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) suffused his late canvases with Mediterranean light and color. Although his subjects were often 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 often contain added details from the artist's daily life and mysterious evocations of his past. The spectral figures which appear at the margins of the canvases, overshadowed by baskets of fruit or other props, create an atmosphere of ambiguity and abstraction: the mundane rendered in a wholly new pictorial language.
The 75 paintings, drawings, and watercolors in this volume, some rarely seen treasures from private collections, all made between 1923 and 1947, are central to the ongoing reappraisal of Bonnard as a leading figure of French modernism.
Item #902694ISBN: 9780300148893
9-1/8 x 12-1/4", blue cloth with gilt spine titles, yellow endpapers, 195pp, selected chronology, bibliography, index, frontis. photograph of the artist, with illustrations of 75 paintings, drawings and watercolors.
Bump to lower corner front board, bright, tight, clean of owner's marks, square, fine in bright unrubbed dust wrapper and protective mylar.
Price: $200.00