  Pierre
Bonnard: The Late Still Lifes and Interiors (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)
~ Dita Amory (Editor, Contributor), Mr. Jack Flam (Contributor), Remi Labrusse
(Contributor), Jacqueline Munck (Contributor), Rika Burnham (Contributor) –
Hardcover: 208 pages Metropolitan Museum of Art (February 24, 2009)
Working in his villa in the south of France, Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) suffused
his late canvases with radiant Mediterranean light and dazzling color. Although
his subjects were close at hand—usually everyday domestic scenes—Bonnard
rarely painted from life. Instead, he made pencil sketches in diaries and relied
on these, along with his memory, as he executed the works in his studio. These interiors
thus often conflate details from the artist’s daily life with fleeting, mysterious
evocations of his past. The spectral figures who appear at the margins of the canvases,
overshadowed by brilliantly colored baskets of fruit or other props, create an atmosphere
of profound ambiguity and puzzling abstraction: the mundane rendered in a wholly
new pictorial language.
The 75 paintings, drawings, and watercolors in this volume, some rarely seen
treasures from private collections, all made between 1923 and 1947, are central
to the ongoing reappraisal of Bonnard as a leading figure of French modernism.
  Pierre
Bonnard: The Work of Art: Suspending Time by Pierre Bonnard – Hardcover:
400 pages Ludion (April 1, 2006)
Among those painters who incontestably left their mark on twentieth-century art,
Bonnard rises to the top again and again. Museums, scholars and viewers regularly
return to his oeuvre for reinterpretation, passionate and contradictory, of what
it means to be Modern. In having followed a very personal calling--literally and
figuratively interior, particularly compared to the work of friends like Matisse--Bonnard
created work as innovative as any of his contemporaries'. His recurring themes--the
nude (both classical and erotic), the landscape, domestic life, and the self-portrait--evolve
with him from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, from Paris to the south
of France, alive with constant reinvention. Although for Bonnard the subject was
always important, his work navigates a sophisticated dialectic between the givens
of perception and memory, between the image before our eyes and all that it suggests.
This substantial reference includes work from the Hermitage and the Museum of
Modern Art of the City of Paris, which sponsored its publication. Contributors
include Yve-Alain Bois, Sarah Whitfield, and Georges Roque. Photographs from Dina
Verny and Henri Cartier-Bresson among others document the era and Bonnard's models
as he saw them.
Bonnard by Nicholas Watkins – Hardcover, 240 pages (June 1994)
Phaidon Press Inc.
Pierre Bonnard: Observing Nature by Gloria Groom, Ursula Perucchi-Petri,
Belinda Thomson, Jorg Zutter, Gloria Lynn Groom, National Gallery of Australia
– Paperback: 184 pages Publisher: National Gallery of Australia (June 1,
2003)
The French artist Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) was a successful painter, draughtsman,
photographer, printmaker, illustrator, and interior designer and his works continue
to surprise and overwhelm new generations of art lovers. This handsome catalogue
brings together more than 110 paintings, drawings, lithographs, and photographs,
concentrating on works from both public and private collections, and focusing
on the evolution of Bonnard's artistic career in the twentieth century.
It follows the artist's stylistic and iconographic development, giving a comprehensive
view of Bonnard's career from his early Nabi works of 1890-1900 to his large decorations
of 1905-1912 and his various nudes, portraits and landscapes of the 1920s and
1930s. The book closes with a group of stunning paintings and works on paper—predominantly
still lifes, sublime nudes, portraits, and Mediterranean landscapes —created
in the late 1930s through World War II.
Pierre Bonnard offers new insights into one of the most complex yet highly consistent
artists of the twentieth century whose work was and still is influential on modern
painters. From a contemporary perspective, Bonnard appears to many as a profoundly
radical artist whose works have an extraordinary power to fascinate and inspire
the viewer.
Bonnard by Sarah Whitfield, John Elderfield – Hardcover, 272 pages
(April 1998) Harry N Abrams
It seems somehow revolutionary that a turquoise-blue painting graces the cover
of Bonnard, the catalog accompanying a 1998 exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art
in New York City. The color of the endpapers—deep yellow—tells readers
that even the book designers know with which end of the color spectrum most viewers
associate this sensuous painter. The translucent-looking, sun-struck, golden woman
in the bathtub—the artist's wife and favorite model—is so emblazoned
on our memories that it takes an exhibition like the one documented in this book
to remind viewers of Bonnard's extraordinary range as a colorist.
Bonnard – In Search of Pure Color (1984) Format: 
Color, NTSC
VHS Release Date: June 16, 2000
Run Time: 49 minutes
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Bonnard and the Nabis (Temporis)
~ Albert Kostenevitch (Author) – Hardcover: 207 pages
Parkstone Press (November 1, 2005)
Pierre Bonnard was the leader of a group of post-impressionist painters who called
themselves the Nabis, from the Hebrew word meaning ‘prophet’. Bonnard,
Vuillard, Roussel and Denis, the most distinguished of the Nabis, revolutionized
the spirit of decorative techniques during one of the richest periods in the history
of French painting. Influenced by Odilon Redon and Puvis de Chavanne, by popular
imagery and Japanese etchings, this post-impressionist group was above all a close
circle of friends who shared the same cultural background and interests. An increasing
individualism in their art often threatened the group’s unity and although
tied together by a common philosophy their work clearly diverged. This publication
lets us compare and put into perspective the artists within this fascinating group.
The works presented in this collection offer a palette of extraordinary poetic expressions:
candid in Bonnard, ornamental and mysterious in Vuillard, gently dream-like in Denis,
grim and almost in Vallotton, the author shares with us the lives of these artists
to the very source of their creative gifts.
 Pierre
Bonnard: Early and Late
by Elizabeth Hutton Turner – Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher:
Philip Wilson Publishers (May 2, 2003)
This major presentation of the work of Pierre Bonnard follows
a new line of enquiry reconciling what has previously been seen
as two distinct early and creative periods: the Nabis or symbolist
Bonnard and the later so-called Impressionist or colorist Bonnard.
By uniting representative works from all periods of Bonnard’s
life, this book chart’s the artist’s singular pathway
and illustrates his highly independent artistic vision. The
130 works illustrated here, including paintings, drawings, prints,
photographs, and sculpture, show that Bonnard continually experimented
with alternative media and drew from a range of sources, both
Eastern and Western.
The 130 works here illustrated, including paintings, drawings,
prints, photographs and sculpture, show that Bonnard continually
experimented with alternative media and drew from a range of
sources, both Eastern and Western. Above all, the book demonstrates
Bonnard's overriding and lifelong interest in colour. Three
introductory essays explore diverse aspects of Bonnard's work:
his aesthetic innovations in light and colour stemming from
inventions in photography and film; the influence of Japonisme
in his early and late work; and the critical role played by
Bonnard's early formative education in Parisian Lycees.
The resulting volume, which accompanies an exhibition at The Phillips
Collection, Washington, D.C., and the Denver Art Museum, is essential
for all lovers of the work of Pierre Bonnard and of great value
to students and connoisseurs of the history of European modenism.
  Beyond
the Easel: Decorative Painting by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, and Roussel, 1890-1930
by Gloria Groom Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Yale University Press (April 1,
2001)
Accompanying an exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago and The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, this attractive catalog is the first
study to focus on the decorative painting of French artists Pierre
Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Maurice Denis, and Ker Xavier Roussel,
members of the Nabis in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Curator Groom chronicles the formal development of each artist's
style as well as the involvement of patrons who commissioned murals
and screens for their homes. In his essay, scholar Nicholas Watkins
demonstrates how the four artists applied the aesthetic principles
of the mural to all types of painting, thus subverting the academic
hierarchy of the fine and decorative arts. Drawing parallels with
William Morris's Arts and Crafts movement and acknowledging the
influences of both Japanese art and the 18th-century French rococo
style, Watkins traces the absorption of these artists' abstracted
decorative style into early 20th-century modernism and post-World
War II avant-garde painting. With beautiful illustrations and a
thoughtful text, this book is recommended for all libraries with
art collections. —Sandra Rothenberg, Framingham State Coll.
Lib., MA Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Bonnard: Shimmering Color by Antoine Terrasse, Pierre
Bonnard – Paperback, 144 pages (November 1, 2000) Harry N Abrams
With a text by the artist's grandnephew, Bonnard brings a special
intimacy to the exuberant, beautiful domestic interiors, pastoral
landscapes, still lifes, and portraits of the French artist
Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947), whose vibrant, colorful palette
drew streams of art lovers to a recent retrospective exhibition
at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
 Interpreting
Bonnard: Color and Light by Nicholas Watkins – Paperback,
80 pages (June 1998) Stewart Tabori & Chang
Pierre Bonnard was a very private painter who confined his subject
matter to his wife, his homes, the surrounding countryside,
and his self-portraits. This book provides a concise review
of Bonnard's life, key works, and the development of his technique.
50 color illustrations.
Bonnard (The World of Art) by Timothy Hyman – Paperback,
224 pages (May 1998) Thames & Hudson
Bonnard's greatest works explore his claustrophobic relationship
with his wife; in his seventies he also completed some of the most
poignant self-portraits in Western art. This book shows how his
greatest works sometimes emerged from terrible circumstances. 169
illustrations. 50 in color. |
