Self portrait by Pierre Bonnard, “Examining the foliage of a tree”, Garden Montval, 1900/1901. In a usually neglected detail when artists model for their own photographic work and someone else must release the shutter, for this shot he recorded that the camera was operated by Marthe, his wife.

Pierre Bonnard, Le petit déjeuner, 1936

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Nude Woman Standing…. Pierre Bonnard

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Nu s’habillant (1925) - Pierre Bonnard

Pierre Bonnard, Nude in the Bath, 1937, oil on canvas. Bonnard was one of the founding members of Les Nabis (the prophets) as an artist he found inspiration in the stark schematic outlines of painters like Gauguin. As well as this he was drawn to the formal compositions and purity of colour depicted in Japanese woodblock prints. All of this culminates in ‘Nude in a Bath’ an intimate subject but executed in a highly stylised manner. Here Bonnard rejects depth and perspective and uses a palette of unnatural warm and cool colours, blending the nude into her surroundings and the interior into the world beyond the window. The effect is unusually mythic and otherworldly.

Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867-1947) - View of the River, Vernon, 1923

Pierre Bonnard

Self-Portrait in a Bamboo Mirror

circa 1890

Model in Backligh by Pierre Bonnard, 1908

Detail of “Girl with a Parrot” by Pierre Bonnard, 1910.

Pierre Bonnard - Almond Tree in Blossom

Pierre Bonnard. Balcony at Veronnet, c. 1920. Musée des Beaux-arts de Brest Métropole

Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867-1947)

Fruit Bowl on a Table, 1934

Vase of Flowers on the Mantlepiece, Pierre Bonnard