Pierre and Marthe Bonnard bought a villa in the village soon after they married, and she died there in 1942, with Pierre following her in 1947.
Category Archive: Painting
A small village inland from the resort of Cannes, on the Mediterranean coast. Home to Renoir as an escape for his arthritis, and later to Pierre Bonnard, who settled down there.
January is named after the Roman god of transitions, Janus, and is the first month of the New Year. Or is it? Classical civilisations more usually started their year in Spring, and what’s this about Juno?
Symbolism, Naturalism, Neo-Impressionism, industrial realism, Hudson River landscapes, folklore, orientalist landscapes, Impressionism, and genre painting of the Dutch Golden Age.
Last of London’s working horses, the fall of Phaethon, 3D water droplets in Hell, vanitas symbols, Neptune’s horses, a blown-out umbrella, and others.
Lower East Side tenements, King Midas with ass’s ears, unusual interiors, Napoleon’s retreat in 1812, marble quarries, British music halls, and more.
Domestic interiors that aren’t quite right, a woman’s black silhouette that seems to absorb light, a colour-coded account of Perseus rescuing Andromeda, and his last landscapes.
Among the leaders of the French Revolution, he was almost guillotined alongside Robespierre, but got on well with Napoleon, and was even offered the post of court painter to King Louis XVIII.
John Singer Sargent’s huge murals of classical myths, two last narrative paintings by Lovis Corinth, modern style in portraits by Anita Rée, and Oleksandra Ekster’s ‘Theatrical Composition’.
Christmas trees cut in the woods, or bought in a seasonal market. Queen Marie and ordinary families gathered round, and finally falling asleep exhausted.
The Eclectic Light Company 