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Pierre Bonnard, artist
French, 1867 - 1947
Femme Debout Dans Sa Baignoire (Woman standing in her bath), 1923
Lithograph
29.7 x 19.1 cm (image); 49.4 x 32.1 cm (sheet)
Museum Purchase 1973.9.26

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Artist Biography: French painter, book illustrator, lithographer, and etcher, and a leader of the French "Intimiste" school of painting. He began law studies c. 1885, but abandoned them in 1888 to work for a year at the …cole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and at the AcadÈmie Julian, where he met Jean …douard Vuillard (a lifelong friend), Maurice Denis, Paul Ranson, FÈlix Vallotton, and Paul SÈrusier, all of whom formed the "Nabis" group (Hebrew "Nebiim", "prophets.") In 1889, after he had sold a champagne poster design, his father allowed him to begin serious training. Japanese art and the precepts of Paul Gauguin then pre-occupied him; his work was characterized by flat, black-outlined areas of warm, decorative color and simplified forms in the current sinuous Art-Nouveau style. Humour, allied with keen observation of Parisian life, distinguished his exhibits at the Salon des Independents (from 1891) and his illustrations to La Revue Blanche (from 1893). ~~In 1900 Bonnard's style began to change. His palette became livelier, his brushwork more loose and transparent. He turned more often to landscape and spent long summers in the Seine Valley and southern France. His compositions, deceptively simple in appearance, often embody tricks of perspective the complexity of which he increased by introducing mirrors.~~For thirty years Bonnard lived with Maria Boursin (known as "Marthe de MÈligny") before marrying her in 1925, and she appears in many of his pictures.~~~~Reference: Bouvet, Francis. Bonnard The Complete Graphic Work (New York: Rizzoli, 1981)~

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