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  • Pierre Bonnard
    Oct 03, 1867 - Jan 23, 1947
  • Le Verger (The Orchard) - Pierre Bonnard was a French painter who helped provide a bridge between impressionism and the abstraction explored by post-impressionists. He is known for the bold colors in his work and a fondness for painting elements of everyday life, member of the group of artists called the Nabis and afterward a leader of the Intimists; he is generally regarded as one of the greatest colourists of modern art.
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Le Verger (The Orchard)
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  • circa 1899
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    Throughout his life, Bonnard returned to the countryside both as a subject for his art and a place of leisure. The present work depicts two women and a child in an orchard set in a lush landscape, painted at the height of Bonnard's Nabis period. While studying painting at the Académie Julian in Paris, he had met fellow artists Paul Sérusier, Maurice Denis, and Paul Ranson, all of whom would become central figures of the Nabis movement alongside their master, Paul Gauguin.

    The Nabis were characterised by a strong interest in painting en plein air as well as a stylistic tendency towards bold patterning of surface and brightness of palette. By the time Le Verger was painted, the artist had developed a mature and singular style which was informed by the strong influence that Gauguin had over the Nabis. As Sarah Whitfield writes, 'Bonnard makes us aware that the principal subject for the painter must be the surface which, as he says, 'has its colour, its laws over and above those of objects'' (Sarah Whitfield & John Elderfield, Bonnard (exhibition catalogue), Tate Gallery, London, 1998, p. 15). These characteristics are apparent in the present work: the vivid blocks of colour that depict a tranquil outdoor scene demonstrate both the powerful effect of Bonnard's palette and the delicate, quick brushstrokes of plein air painting.

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Other paintings by Pierre Bonnard:

Le Ravin (The Ravine)
Le Ravin (The Ravine)
Le Toit Rouge (Le Toit Rouge)
Le Toit Rouge (Le Toit Rouge)
Lemon trees at Cannet
Lemon trees at Cannet
Les Mamans (La Famille Cottet)
Les Mamans (La Famille Cottet)
Pierre BonnardPierre Bonnard was a French Post-Impressionist painter remembered for his ability to convey dazzling light with juxtapositions of vibrant color. “What I am after is the first impression—I want to show all one sees on first entering the room—what my eye takes in at first glance,” he said of his work. Born on October 3, 1867 in Fontenay-aux-Roses, France, Bonnard studied law at the Sorbonne, graduating in 1888. During this time, he was also enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts but left to attend the Académie Julian in 1889. At this more open-minded painting academy, Bonnard met Maurice Denis, Paul Sérusier, and Édouard Vuillard, among others. Together with these artists he helped from a group known as the Nabis, who were influenced by Japanese prints and the use of flat areas of color. Early on in his career, Bonnard was better known for his prints and posters than for his paintings. Moving to the South of France in 1910, over the following decades, Bonnard receded from the forefront of the art world, mainly producing tapestry-like paintings of his wife Marthe in their home. Late works of Bonnard, such as The Terrace at Vernonnet (1939), more closely resembled a continuation of Impressionism than other avant-garde styles of the era. Because of this, at the time of his death on January 23, 1947 in Le Cannet, France, the artist’s work had been largely discounted as regressive. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and the Tate Gallery in London, among others.