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Pierre Bonnard

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Pierre Bonnard Portrait photograph of Pierre Bonnard, c.1899, Musée d'Orsay Born ( 1867-10-03 ) 3 October 1867 Fontenay-aux-Roses, Hauts-de-Seine, France Died 23 January 1947 (1947-01-23) (aged 79) La Route de Serra Capeou, Le Cannet, French Riviera, France Nationality French Known for Painter Notable work Terrasse à Vernon La femme aux Deux Fauteuils Movement Post-Impressionism, Intimism Pierre Bonnard ( French:  [bɔnaʁ] ; 3 October 1867 — 23 January 1947) was a French painter and printmaker, as well as a founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis. [1] Bonnard preferred to work from memory, using drawings as a reference, and his paintings are often characterized by a dreamlike quality. The intimate domestic scenes, for which he is perhaps best known, often include his wife Marthe de Meligny. [2] Bonnard has been described as "the most thoroughly idiosyncratic of all the great twentieth-c...

Jules Chéret

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Jules Chéret Born Jules Chéret ( 1836-05-31 ) 31 May 1836 Paris, France Died 23 September 1932 (1932-09-23) (aged 96) Nationality French Education École Nationale de Dessin Known for Lithography, Poster art Movement Art Nouveau Awards Légion d'honneur Jules Chéret (31 May 1836 – 23 September 1932) was a French painter and lithographer who became a master of Belle Époque poster art. He has been called the father of the modern poster. Contents 1 Biography 2 Selected works 3 Figure studies 4 See also 5 References 6 External links Biography L'Etendard Français, Chéret's 1891 poster for the bicycle shop on the Quai d'Orsay Vin Mariani, Chéret's 1894 poster for the digestif and tonic wine fortified by coca Born in Paris to a poor but creative family of artisans, Chéret had a very limited education. At age thirteen, he began a three-year apprenticeship with a lithographer and then his in...