Bonnard among friends : Matisse, Monet, Vuillard ... / edited by Véronique Serrano with the collaboration of Marina Ferretti Bocquillon, Isabelle de Navas and Chantal Duverget.
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Musée Bonnard, Le Cannet, France, May 19-Sept. 16, 2012. On cover: Le Musée Bonnard. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Preface / Michèle Tabarot -- Shared perspectives / Véronique Serrano -- Bonnard, Vuillard and the Nabis, shared portraits: The role of the others. Cross portraits / Véronique Serrano ; Catalogue part 1 / entries by Véronique Serrano -- Bonnard and Monet: nature, between simplicity and excess: Pierre Bonnard and Impressionism / Marina Ferretti Bocquillon ; Catalogue part 2 / entries by Véronique Serrano -- Variations on the window: Bonnard and Matisse, Manguin, Camoin: Bonnard and Matisse. Windows with a view / Isabelle de Navas ; Catalogue part 3 / entries by Véronique Serrano -- Appendix: Pierre Bonnard and his circle: a crossed chronology / by Véronique Serrano ; Pierre Bonnard-George Besson: "long live friendship" ; Bonnard-Besson correspondence / presented and annotated by Chantal Duverget.
Summary:
"Offers a journey through fifty or so key works lent by prestigious collections and institutions in France and abroad ... the aim of this exhibition ... is to restore the dialogue with a certain number of artists, including Matisse, Monet, Vuillard, Rippl-Rónai, Camoin and Manguin, that inspires Bonnard"--Back cover.
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