FORT WORTH - Escaping the winter chill with an hour's pleasurable immersion in the warm light and color of France is reason enough - although by no means the only reason - to visit the Kimbell Art ...
An Italian factory worker who unknowingly purchased stolen paintings by Paul Gauguin and Pierre Bonnard is hopeful that the two works will be returned to him, reports the BBC. Both pieces were stolen ...
It’s not a criticism to say that lovers of the work of Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) will not find many surprises in the survey “Pierre Bonnard: Painting Arcadia,” at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris. On the ...
Ten years ago, an art exhibit with the words "interior" or "still life" in the title would have had me running away to the nearest modern art wing. Breakfast rooms? Baskets of apples? Yawn--give me ...
It can be hard to let things go, especially when that ‘thing’ is an artwork you’ve toiled over for weeks, months, or even years. No one found this as difficult, perhaps, as French Post-Impressionist ...
Pablo Picasso “detested” Pierre Bonnard, says Guy Cogeval, president of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay. It’s easy to see why. In the early 20th century, Picasso and members of experimental groups such as the ...
“It is always so interesting to see which artists come in and out of favor, and why,” said Esther Bell, curator in charge of European painting at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, in a recent ...
Take a painting such as his Dining Room in the Country, 1913, from the Minneapolis Institute of Art. The doors and windows are flung open. Bonnard’s wife, Marthe, leans in through the window. A cat ...
The French modernist painter Pierre Bonnard holds a special place at Acquavella Galleries in New York. The owners are drawn to Bonnard’s brilliant color palette and absorbing compositions, says ...
“Why do people love Pierre Bonnard so much?” asks The Guardian’s art critic Adrian Searle in his review of the painter’s current show at London’s Tate Modern. There are obvious reasons: his rich ...
Two paintings worth millions of euros by the French artists Paul Gauguin and Pierre Bonnard, stolen in London in 1970 then abandoned on a train, have been recovered in Italy. Gauguin’s “Fruit on a ...
Picasso once dismissed French painter Pierre Bonnard, calling his work a "potpourri of indecision." Yet Bonnard, often unfairly portrayed as a post-Impressionist who created happy paintings of sunlit ...