Bonnard: La Seine Pres de Vernon (1926)

Pierre Bonnard, *La Seine Pres de Vernon*, signed Bonnard and dated 1926 (lower right), oil on canvas, 260 by 150cm., Image Source: Sotheby’s

“La Seine près de Vernon reflects the artist’s fascination with the lush nature of the region, which he transformed into a rich, yet carefully developed composition. The wild trees on the river bank act as a window that reveals the water and the expanses of sky and nature beyond it. The human presence is suggested through the people on the small boat that is mainly hidden behind the trees, overshadowed by the exuberant nature. Jörg Zutter wrote about Bonnard’s landscapes in the vicinity of Vernon: ‘The dialogue between architecture and nature, wildness and domesticity, people and landscape, is sublimely expressed. Nature and organic life dominate, pushing the human figures to the edges and subsuming them into the surroundings’ (J. Zutter in Pierre Bonnard: Observing Nature (exhibition catalogue), National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2003, p. 54).”
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Bonnard, Pierre, Colta Feller Ives, Helen Emery Giambruni, and Sasha M. Newman. 1989. Pierre Bonnard, the graphic art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15324coll10/id/92079 , (accessed 8 Nov 2018).