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Pierre Bonnard Posthumous Etching Parc Monceau Paris

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Pierre Bonnard Posthumous Etching Parc Monceau Paris
This print portrays one of the beautiful parks of Paris. * Artist: Pierre Bonnard (Posthumous) Title: Parc Monceau Medium: Etching on paper Sheet size: 20" x 13-3/4" Condition: Excellent * Biography:Pierre Bonnard (b. 1867, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France; d. 1947, Le Cannet) Pierre Bonnard was born October 3, 1867, in Fontenay-aux-Roses, France. He began law studies in Paris in 1887. That same year, Bonnard also attended the Acad mie Julian * and in 1888 entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he met Ker-Xavier Roussel and Edouard Vuillard, who became his lifelong friends. Thus Bonnard gave up law to become an artist, and, after brief military service, in 1889 he joined the group of young painters * called the Nabis, which was organized by Paul S rusier and included Maurice Denis, Paul Ranson, Roussel, Vuillard, and others. The Nabis, influenced by Paul Gauguin and Japanese prints, experimented with arbitrary color, expressive line, and flat, patterned * surfaces. In 1890, Bonnard shared a studio with Vuillard and Denis, and he began to make color lithographs. The following year, he met Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Also in 1891, he showed for the first time at the Salon des Ind pendants and in the Nabis's earliest * exhibitions at Le Barc de Boutteville. Bonnard exhibited with the Nabis until they disbanded in 1900. He worked in a variety of mediums; for example, he frequently made posters and illustrations for La Revue blanche, and in 1895 he designed a stained-glass * window for Louis Comfort Tiffany. His first solo show, at the Galerie Durand-Ruel in 1896, included paintings, posters, and lithographs. In 1897, Ambroise Vollard published the first of many albums of Bonnard's lithographs and illustrated books. In 1903, Bonnard * participated in the first Salon d'Automne and in the Vienna Secession, and from 1906 he was represented by Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris. He traveled abroad extensively and worked at various locations in Normandy, the Seine valley, and the south of France * (he bought a villa in Le Cannet near Cannes in 1925), as well as in Paris. The Art Institute of Chicago mounted a major exhibition of the work of Bonnard and Vuillard in 1933, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, organized Bonnard retrospectives in 1946 * and 1964. Bonnard died January 23, 1947, in Le Cannet, France. *
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