Pierre Bonnard: Assiette de fruits

Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867 – 1947) *Assiette de fruits*, Signed Bonnard (lower right) Oil on canvas 14 by 20¼ in. 35.5 by 51.5 cm, Painted in 1917, Image Source: Sotheby’s

“By 1917, Bonnard had left the darker tones of his Nabis days firmly behind him and here we can see him in confident command of a luminous and transformative palette. Powerfully expressive, color in Bonnard’s still-lives radiates a very human heat, suffusing his interiors and the objects within them with a sense of the bodies that have just passed through them. The low perspective and sharp diagonal of the table in the present work illustrate Bonnard’s radical approach to spatial design and anticipate developments that would have an important influence on the interiors of later artists such as David Hockney or Richard Diebenkorn.”
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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.