Painting Paris street scenes through the winter, Bonnard and Marthe left the city for the country and coast over the summer.
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More scenes of street life in Paris, a landscape, and a Japoniste painting of Spring blossom. Bonnard also gives us glimpses of his private life with Marthe.
He starts to evolve away from Nabis style, with brisk oil sketched of the streets of Paris. Here you see his mature style and themes starting to emerge.
Evolution from realism to the more painterly. Then in the late 1890s, city landscapes in which the people are the landscape. Remarkable paintings seen in detail.
After 1900, New York City became a more dominant theme in the works of major East Coast artists.
How did great painters of the East Coast paint the cities in which they lived and worked?
In his later career, he discovered the West Coast and the beauty of trees and gardens, continuing to paint in Impressionist style.
The Impressionist master of skyscrapers, he painted New York City as its buildings rose into the sky.
This article summarises the information that I have now obtained from working through that catalogue raisoné, and includes new information on Pissarro’s series paintings.
This article considers Camille Pissarro’s series paintings: how they developed, which major series he produced, and what he intended by painting them.
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