A master eye for detail Oct 7, 2008
douard Vuillard, Corot, Pierre Bonnard, Thomas Eakins and John Singer Sargent became particular favourites and he has painted himself since the early 1950s, primarily as a watercolorist depicting beach scenes at Coney Island, roller coasters, garment-trade workers, bleachers and exterior scenes of Venice and Rome. Although he has had dozens of one-man shows of these paintings, they've never superseded the caricatures in popularity or acclaim. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Portrait of our times Oct 4, 2008
McFarlane makes a comparison with French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, who worked with what was at hand, whether capturing the indecision of painter Pierre Bonnard or Henri Matisse at home with his white doves. Of course, what has changed since the photographic heyday of Cartier-Bresson, Irving Penn or Richard Avedon is time and access. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Mir, Calder, Giacometti and Braque Oct 4, 2008
Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard. Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) and Henri Matisse (1869-1954) helped Maeght set up his gallery and the show opens with a room devoted to their work. (Suite101.com)
Gallery tribute to art collector Oct 3, 2008
Matisse and artist Pierre Bonnard, who both feature in the exhibition, were friends with Maeght when they lived in the south of France during World War II.. The pair persuaded Maeght to open an art gallery after the war, and helped put together the collection. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Another Picasso on the block Sep 12, 2008
The acrylic paint on silkscreen on canvas portrait has an upper estimate of $2 million and will be sold on the same night as Pierre Bonnard's Bouquet de cheminee, which has an upper of $1 ... "With exquisite investment works by two of the world's top-performing international artists, Andy Warhol and Pierre Bonnard, Menzies Art Brands are taking forward our new auction model by giving premium international pictures the same billing as Australian masters in our September sale.". (Melbourne Herald Sun)
Unveiled: bequest to the public of 18 masterpieces Jul 8, 2008
Nude in the Bath 1925 by Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947). Girl with a Kitten 1947, Boy Smoking 1950-1 and The Painter's Mother 1972 by Lucian Freud (born 1922). (guardian.co.uk)
Rarely-seen Monet goes on display Jun 21, 2008
Other major impressionist and modern works at the sale are by Henri Matisse, Pierre Bonnard, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky and Camille Pissarro. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Exhibitions at The Met: Early 2009 Mar 29, 2008
Exhibitions at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in early 2009 deal with Old Master to Impressionist drawings, Pierre Bonnard, French sculpture, Korean art and photography ... Pierre Bonnard: Still Life and the Late Interiors (January 27-April 19, 2009) explores the interiors and still-life imagery of Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) late in his career. (Suite101.com)
Color -- urban and rural -- a part of Hagin's world Mar 28, 2008
While she says she had earlier been influenced by Henri Matisse, Pierre Bonnard and the figurative works of Richard Diebenkorn of the early 1960s, in the 1970s her "two new favorite artists" were Jo hannes Vermeer and Edward Hop per, whom she calls "visual truth- tellers.". In "Oval Glass," a watercolor on paper she painted in 2001, her mas tery of yellow is comparable to Ver meer. (NJ.com -- Times)
Ruth Cobb, at 93; paintings evoked a dreamlike state Feb 3, 2008
Art historian Francine Koslow Miller of Andover said in an essay to accompany the Brandeis exhibit that Ms. Cobb's art could aptly be described as intimiste, the French word often associated with the mood of late 19th-century paintings by two of Ms. Cobb's favorite artists, Edouard Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard. The term, which evokes a middle-class life characterized by intimate, cozy domesticity, also aptly describes Ms. Cobb's delicate and subtle interiors, Miller wrote. (Boston Globe)
GMOA exhibit focuses on scenes in nature Nov 13, 2007
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Sainsbury leaves 100m of art to Tate and National Gallery Oct 30, 2007
Two pieces by the French painter, Pierre Bonnard, Nude in the Bath and The Yellow Boat, will make the gallery "one of the principle places to see Bonnard outside Paris". Other works include the gallery's first "conversation piece" by the German neo-classical painter Johan Zoffany, noted for his portraits of prominent actors in the roles they played and a "masterpiece" by John Wootton, the English painter who specialised in sporting subjects. (Independent)
The Art of Winemaking Sep 8, 2007
Pierre Bonnard created "Poster for France-Champagne," (1889-1891) a drawing of a woman holding a glass of champagne that fizzes to the bottom of the print. In 1957, Pablo Picasso illustrated the effects of wine drinking in the lithograph, "La Danse de Faunes (Dance of the Fauns)." Loose sketches of naked men play horns and flutes as they celebrate life with a night of wine drinking. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Bruce Museum's 'Eye Candy' looks at chocolate advertising Aug 27, 2007
Among the period's cultural legacies is a series of 240 posters by artists including Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Pierre Bonnard. Titled Les Maitre de l'Affiche, these posters advertised everything from the famed Moulin Rouge nightclub to absinthe and hot chocolate. (Stamford Advocate)
Read more... Aug 25, 2007
Phillips forged relationships with many artists of varying degrees of renown, welcoming them to the house, including Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse ... The Phillips Collection is home to one of the most exquisite collections of impressionist and modern American and European art in the world with works by artists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Vincent van Gogh, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Czanne, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Claude Monet, Honor Daumier, Georgia OKeeffe,... (PNN Online)
A portrait of the artist and her mother Aug 22, 2007
Gordon begins with her visit to an exhibition on French painter Pierre Bonnard, congratulating herself on the fact that she's so moved by visual art that it's a religious experience. Her mother, Gordon writes, never went to museums. (Christian Science Monitor)
Review: Gordon comes to terms with senile mother in 'Circling' Aug 12, 2007
Review: Gordon comes to terms with senile mother in 'Circling. Article:Review: Gordon comes to terms with senile mother in 'Ci:/c/a/2007/08/10/DDUVR4D37. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Palo Alto show a lush garden of painterly delights Jul 8, 2007
When design overtakes McCormack's work, it strangles the nourishing passage into her art of remembrances of Henri Matisse, Richard Diebenkorn, Pierre Bonnard, even Barnett Newman. But the Palo Alto Art Center show does for McCormack what a survey should do: It inspires confidence in her as an artist and confirms a growing, uncalculating authority -- just what we hope to see in a painter's art. (San Francisco Chronicle)
A misty Monet work is sold in 18m frenzy Jun 19, 2007
Expectations were set when pictures by Pierre Bonnard, Andre Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck were among six of the first 10 lots last night sold for way above their highest pre-sale estimates. Notable was a view of the French port of Anvers by the second division Impressionist, Emile Orthon Friesz, which set a record for the artist, selling for 1. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Eight works by Picasso among treasures of VAG exhibition Jun 10, 2007
If that's not enough, the exhibit also includes works anyone familiar with modern art would immediately recognize such as Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Max Ernst, Paul Gauguin, Fernand Leger, Rene Magritte, Joan Miro, Amadeo Modigliani, Camille Pissaro, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, Henry Rousseau, and George Seurat. "It quite genuinely is a once in a lifetime opportunity, at least in Vancouver," Thom said in an interview. (Vancouver Sun)
Modernism's odd man out Apr 9, 2007
douard Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard, Denis was an avid writer, becoming the movement's chief theoretician. Yet he has remained largely beneath the radar. (Globe and Mail)
Sotheby's Raises $186 Million in London Sale of Impressionist, Modern Art Feb 6, 2007
5 million pounds, and a guarantee from Sotheby's of a minimum price to the seller; two Egon Schiele works; three Emil Nolde paintings; two Pierre Bonnard pictures; landscapes by Claude Monet and Eugene Boudin, and an Edgar Degas dancer. Sculptures were snapped up. (Bloomberg -- UK)
