After reaching a peak around 1909, in 1916 Bonnard suddenly stopped painting mirror play, and didn’t resume until the 1930s.
Bonnard
For over 40 years, Bonnard used mirror play in many of his paintings of intimate domestic scenes, often involving his partner Marthe as model.
Paintings by Helen Allingham, Willard Metcalf, Pierre Bonnard, JW Waterhouse, Nikolai Astrup, and others.
She married publishing magnate Alfred Edwards and cruised on their large yacht. In 1909 she divorced and married a Spanish painter, while being a major patron of Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes.
After marrying her cousin, the couple entertained Proust, Mallarmé, Gide, Debussy, and were patrons of Monet, Renoir, Odilon Redon, Signac and Toulouse-Lautrec.
Unusual self-portraits painted using mirrors by Courbet, Corinth, Bonnard, Gentileschi, Peeters, and Velázquez.
New series describing and illustrating how reflections have been painted in European and American art, from the early Renaissance to the 20th century.
More influence in paintings by van Gogh, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Gauguin, the Nabis sculptor Georges Lacombe, Helen Hyde, and Colin Campbell Cooper.
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.
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.
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