Any exhibition of work by Pierre Bonnard, wrote one critic on the French website Arthive, is “a story of Pierre and Marthe – a very private one”. Bonnard, who was born into an upper middle-class ...

Mahdavi designed scenography for Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria's newest exhibition. Installation view "Pierre Bonnard: Designed by India Mahdavi" 2023. Courtesy of the National Gallery of ...

It can be hard to let things go, especially when that ‘thing’ is an artwork you’ve toiled over for weeks, months, or even years. No one found this as difficult, perhaps, as French Post-Impressionist ...

“It is always so interesting to see which artists come in and out of favor, and why,” said Esther Bell, curator in charge of European painting at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, in a recent ...

Want to see new art in the city? Check out Natia Lemay’s sculptures at Yossi Milo, and Aria Dean’s work at Greene Naftali. And don’t miss Aliza Nisenbaum’s paintings at the Queens Museum. By Martha ...

Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) was part of the “Nabis” (“prophets”) movement, which included Édouard Vuillard and Ker-Xavier Roussel, who fused art and design and were inspired by Japanese aesthetics and ...

I dream of seeking the absolute,” Pierre Bonnard wrote to Henri Matisse early in November 1940. The phrase leaps off the page—for many reasons. First, there is the context. The letter dates from the ...

IT'S A LITTLE hard to imagine how any exhibition at the Phillips Collection devoted to the art of the French painter Pierre Bonnard -- a museum favorite who has had, since 1930, a baker's dozen of ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Happily, there have been many opportunities to test these assessments in what seems to be a steady stream of ...

“Why do people love Pierre Bonnard so much?” asks The Guardian’s art critic Adrian Searle in his review of the painter’s current show at London’s Tate Modern. There are obvious reasons: his rich ...