Metropolitan Museum Of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
New York
27 January – 19 April 2009
The first exhibition to focus entirely on the radiant late interiors and still-life paintings of Pierre Bonnard will open at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Pierre Bonnard: The Late Interiors will feature 80 paintings, drawings, and watercolors that date from 1923 to 1947, when Bonnard centered his painting activity in Le Cannet, a hill town in the south of France.
Working in his modest house overlooking the Mediterranean, Bonnard's paintings transformed the rooms and objects that surrounded him into dazzling images infused with intense light.
It is these luminous late interiors that define Bonnard's modernism and prompt a reappraisal of his reputation in the history of 20th-century art.
Among the 45 paintings, 16 watercolors and gouaches, and 19 drawings and sketches in the exhibition are numerous rarely seen works from private collections, as well as loans from prominent museums in Europe and the U.S.
The exhibition will also reunite several pictures that once hung side-by-side on Bonnard's studio wall in Le Cannet.
The exhibition is made possible by The Florence Gould Foundation.
The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
More modern than is commonly recognized, the late work of Pierre Bonnard is remarkable for the artist's individualistic approach to color, light, perspective, and composition, particularly as seen in his interiors and still lifes.
Although less well-known than his paintings of bathers, Bonnard's late interiors and still-life paintings are equally extraordinary.
Over the course of 24 years of painting the simply furnished, familiar rooms of his house at Le Cannet, Bonnard discovered infinite possibilities, much as Paul Cézanne had discovered in the landscape of Mont Sainte-Victoire.
The exhibition will feature the artist's finest interiors, including Corner of the Dining Room at Le Cannet, The White Interior, and The French Window, all from 1932.
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