Pierre Bonnard: The Late Interiors
January 27, 2009–April 19, 2009
Robert Lehman Wing
This is the first exhibition to focus entirely on the late interiors and related still-life imagery of Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947). The paintings, drawings, and watercolors featured in the exhibition date from 1923 to 1947; Bonnard spent much of this time in his house in Le Cannet, in the south of France. Overlooking the Mediterranean, in a bedroom converted to a studio, Bonnard masterminded the dazzling paintings of color and light that we have come to consider his finest. By isolating his interiors, this exhibition will consider this genre in the artist’s long career as a painter and will re-appraise his late paintings as seminal examples of early French modernism.
The exhibition is made possible by The Florence Gould Foundation.
The catalogue is made possible by the Janice H. Levin Fund.