Pierre Bonnard
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...