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Pierre Bonnard Art Print Framed Man Writing

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Pierre Bonnard Art Print Framed Man Writing
This print is from a contemplative sketch of a man deeply focused on writing. * * Artist: Pierre BonnardMedium: Aquatint on paperImage size: 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 inchesFraming: Matted in beige, in gold and black painted decorative wood frameFrame size: 15 x 18 inchesCondition: Excellent * * * * Biography: * * Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) originally went to school to study law. His passion for art led him to enrolling in evening classes at the Acad mie Julian, a Parisian art school. He later gave law, and entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Bonnard won a competition to design an advertising poster French champagne, and his poster was so revolutionary in its design in even nfluenced the great Toulouse-Lautrec. In 1918 he was made the honorary president of a society of young French painters. The Art Institute of Chicago held an exhibition of the work of Bonnard and his studio mate Vuillard in 1933. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, held a Bonnard retrospectives in 1946 and 1964. Since then Bonnard's works have been collected by many private collectors and fine museums. *