Portrait of Marta Bonnard
Technical Details
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Title
Portrait of Marta Bonnard -
Author
Pierre Bonnard -
Year
1917 - 25 -
Dimensions
cm 79 x 50 -
Inventory
5459 -
Room
42
Together with Vuillard, Denis, Roussel and Sérusier, he founded the Nabis (Hebrew for prophets) movement, which, starting from Gauguin’s teaching, reacted to Impressionism with a more thoughtful, in some ways religious, painting, sharp in its colors arranged in defined fields on the canvas.
He distinguished himself from the rest of the group, however, by his renunciation of a language of symbols and mythological evocations, to which he preferred a painting that was an expression of concrete, everyday reality and that found inspiration especially within family life.
Exemplary proof of this is this Portrait of Marta Bonnard, the date of which fluctuates between 1917 and 1925 and which, while evoking the women seated at the cafés of the Impressionist painters, is painted with a particularly intimate and resigned tone.
