“The still life motif formed an integral part of Bonnard’s œuvre and Bouquet de fleurs is exemplative of the artist’s long-standing exploration of colour. Bonnard applies broad gestural brushstrokes to delineate a profusion of flowers and verdant foliage that rise from a decorative blue vase and infuse the composition with a dynamic ebullience… Through this carefully chosen palette, Bonnard creates compositions evocative of a particular moment in time: ‘Bonnard’s colours came to embody the emerging, meeting, and passing of forms in the transient world, whose components he turned into shapes and planes of saffron red, gold light, and violet shadows […] His Mediterranean palette and dazzling light added further abstraction to a corpus of paintings that became less obviously descriptive and more metaphoric over time” (Dita Amory, Pierre Bonnard: The Late Still Lifes and Interiors (exhibition catalogue), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009, pp. 22-23).”
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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).
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