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Pierre Bonnard, artist
French, 1867 - 1947
Rue le soir sous la pluie (Street on a Rainy Evening) from the series, Quelques aspects de la vie de Paris (Several Views of Parisian Life), 1899
Color lithograph
25.5 x 35.2 cm (image); 40.5 x 53.8 cm (sheet)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts purchase 1966.80.53

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publisher, Ambroise Vollard~printer, Auguste Clot

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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Life Parisian of Views Several Paris vie de aspects Quelques series the from Evening Rainy a on pluie la sous soir le Rue purchase Arts Graphic Achenbach Europe France Print Cityscape lithograph Color pavement wet reflections windows shop lighted background against pedestrians cabs scene street Pierre Bonnard French Ambroise Vollard Auguste Clot 5131162228180091 A037140 1966.80.53 AFGA