Influenced by his contact with Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard during the 1890s, Henri Lebasque spent the better part of his career painting the quiet moments of family life. While Vuillard focused his intimiste vision on the domestic interior, a number of Bonnard’s Nabis paintings depict figures outside, and it is Bonnard who seems to…
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Jakub Kuszlik Plays Chopin
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A Little Liszt, A Little Lebasque
As is noted by Lisa Banner, ‘’Intimism,’ a term which best describes Lebasque’s painting, refers to the close domestic subject matter in such a manner as to convey the personal nature of his response to the thing painted, and the universal familiarity of home and family. There is a sense of calm infused in Lebasque’s…
Bonnard: La Seine Pres de Vernon (1926)
“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…
The Jussen Brothers Play Mozart
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Mary Oliver: Sleeping in the Forest
SLEEPING IN THE FOREST I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light…
Pierre Bonnard: Le petit déjeuner (1917)
“Bonnard developed an early obsession with color through his affiliation with the Nabis, a group of avant-garde artists working in fin-de-siècle Paris. These young painters, who included amongst their ranks Maurice Denis, Edouard Vuillard and Paul Sérusier, were specifically inspired by the examples of Post-Impressionists like Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh. The Nabis went even further…
Julia Rovinsky: Sonata A Major K.331 (Mozart)
“Painted circa 1922, Le corsage rayé presents a radiant and quintessential example of Bonnard’s mastery of the interior scene. Painted from memory, Bonnard’s domestic vignettes stemmed from lived experience and years of inhabiting the same space as his subjects. Among his favoured models, …was his long-time muse and eventual wife Marthe de Méligny… Marthe’s enigmatic…
Pentatonix: My Heart With You
“An aspect of Bonnard’s art that grew in importance after 1900 was his Impressionist inheritance and its influence is very evident in the present work. In a departure from his earlier Nabi preference for flat pattern, unbroken fields of color and compositions freed from atmospheric effects, the present work makes transient light and modulated color…
Bonnard and Bach
“Albrecht Mayer discovered the music of J.S. Bach at the age of 8, as a choirboy at Bamberg Cathedral. Within a couple of years he was able to play some of the composer’s simpler keyboard pieces on the piano. “Even then,” he recalls, “I could feel this transcendent image of his music going through my…
Jun Luke Foster: Serenade (Schubert/Liszt)
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Mozart: Clarinet quintet K581 in A major
“Bonnard’s fascination with the vibrant urban landscape of Paris can be traced to his paintings of the mid-1890s…The spectacle of urban modernity provided a colorful source of inspiration, and the artist was drawn to the variety of subjects it offered. His city scenes reflect a unique joie de vivre achieved through the use of bright…
Mozart: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, KV 478
“The glistening azure-glazed vessel and vibrant floral arrangement exemplify Bonnard’s application of the intimisme of his earlier Nabis pictures and the vibrant coloration that define the most successful compositions of his later years. Still-lifes had occupied a large part of the artist’s oeuvre over the course of his career, but as he developed his style, his approach to these compositions is much more…
Thomas & Brocal: Piano concerto No.1 in E minor, Op.11 (Chopin)
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Paul Sérusier: Synchronie en vert (1913)
“Synchrony in Green is a composition characterised by a limited colour range. The simplification of planes reinforces the sober and expressive nature of this still life, and these values are in turn heightened by the geometric shapes of the elements portrayed. Set in an undefined interior, in the foreground we perceive a jug and three…
Pierre Bonnard: Fleurs des champs (c1916)
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Pierre Bonnard: Nature morte (1939)
“A scintillating vision of the domestic everyday, Nature morte from 1939 embodies the expressive possibilities of light and color. A superlative example of Pierre Bonnard’s late still lifes, the present work dates to the year in which the artist permanently relocated to the Côte d’Azur as a consequence of the Second World War and subsequently…
Pierre Bonnard: Dining Room in the Country (1913)
“In 1912, Pierre Bonnard bought a country house called Ma Roulotte (“My Caravan”) at Vernonnet, a small town on the Seine. This painting shows the dining room there, with cats perching on the chairs and Marthe de Méligny, the artist’s wife, leaning on the windowsill. Bonnard, who considered himself “the last of the Impressionists,” emphasized…
Pierre Bonnard: Iris et lilas (1920)
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Pierre Bonnard: Palmier rose au Cannet (1924)
“…Watkins has described the process by which Bonnard mediated and transposed these observations of the landscape back in his studio: “Paintings begun in the memory of a visual experience encapsulated in a drawing were transformed through color into a rich, immensely varied surface made up of a tapestry of brushstrokes, glazes, scumbles, impasto, and highlights…
World Piano Day 2023
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Pierre Bonnard: Flowers in a Stoneware Pot (c1939)
“This rustic, variegated bouquet may have been placed either in the spacious dining room on the ground floor at Le Bosquet or in the intimate sitting area upstairs where Bonnard and Marthe took their breakfast and lunch each day. As always, however, Bonnard would have painted the composition in his studio, overt description giving way…
Pierre Bonnard: Renoncules au vase bleu (c1925)
“For Bonnard, the still-life offered a perfect vehicle for his studies in light and color, with bundles of flowers and fruit among his favorite subjects to explore. In the present bouquet, a bright summer arrangement dominated by a group of orange ranunculuses, the flowers have begun to droop, their full, heavy blossoms dipping downwards, over…
A Visit to Bonnard’s Garden
“At the turn of the century, Bonnard rediscovered nature and colour, after the muted tones and the urban scenes of his Nabi years. He stayed more and more often outside Paris, in the Seine Valley and in the South of France. Impressionism inspired him, but he wanted to go beyond its direct translation of nature….
Henri Lebasque: Vase de fleurs
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Henri Lebasque: Madame Lebasque et sa fille Marthe (1898-99)
Madame Lebasque et sa fille Marthe depicts the artist’s wife and daughter while showcasing his interest in portraying his loved ones in their day-to-day routines. The work demonstrates all of Lebasque’s best qualities including his masterful treatment of light, use of a limited yet vibrant color palette and a composition that directs the viewer’s gaze…
Henri Lebasque: La petite mandoliniste, Marthe Lebasque (1905)
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Pierre Bonnard: Deux corbeilles de fruits (1935)
“Bonnard’s vividly-colored and masterfully-composed domestic scenes and still lifes, like Deux corbeilles de fruits, circa 1935, would become hallmarks of the artist’s later oeuvre. The present work reveals Bonnard’s ability to synthesize an array of artistic influences, both contemporary and historic. Here, Bonnard appropriates the dynamic diagonal compositional order, tilting perspective, and imaginative use of…
The Nutcracker: Dance of the Mirlitons
“Peter Wright’s interpretation of The Nutcracker has been enchanting children and adults alike since its first performance by The Royal Ballet in 1984. Lev Ivanov’s 1892 ballet combined with Tchaikovsky’s sumptuous, iconic score are presented in a festive period setting with vivid designs to make this a charming and magical production. Loosely based on the…
Pierre Bonnard: The Croquet Game (1892)
The Game of Croquet is one of the first works by Pierre Bonnard, one of the founders of the Nabi group in 1888. It was exhibited in 1892 at the Salon des Indépendants under the title Twilight. The painting shows the garden of the family home, at Le Grand-Lemps, in Isère…The subject of the painting…
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