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Apples in a Plate on a Tablecloth - Pierre Bonnard - Oil Painting Wall Decor suits both traditional and modern interiors. As a fine art oil painting, it works as a standalone focal point or as part of a dining room gallery wall, and unlike a print it is genuinely hand painted in oils.
POMMES DANS UN PLAT SUR UNE NAPPE
circa 1935
Oil on canvas
Private Collection, United States.
Pommes dans un plat sur une nappe may be counted among the most exquisite and also the very last still lifes that Bonnard ever painted. This recurring motif was derived from the interior of his beloved house in Le Cannet, a small and charming town overlooking Cannes and the coastline of the C?te d’Azur, and yet this painting is far from a literal record of his household. Bonnard spent most of 1903 travelling between Trouville, London, Vernon and Deauville, and he longed for Le Cannet, his favorite place of retreat and future permanent home. He most likely painted this work while on the move—he always had his brushes, palettes and canvases at hand and insisted on adding further and further "final" touches to his works. Pommes dans un plat sur une nappe is presumed to represent Bonnard’s yearning for stability and permanence, associated with the simplicity of the familiar, including food set at the family table.
Unlike Bonnard’s earlier, often very decorative records of the everyday, the present work is striking for its relative austerity. The artist presents the viewer with an unexpectedly modest portrayal of a patterned Proven?al fruit bowl juxtaposed with a shimmering blue-white cloth against a blended background. The overall fleeting appearance of the scene, comprised of vibrating, urgent brushstrokes, abandoned perspective and calculated lack of detail, gives some shape to the artist's impassioned technique. At the same time, this image is one of Bonnard’s most successful painterly representations of what he called "mobile vision." As the artist declared, he sought to "give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing" (Dita Amory, Pierre Bonnard: The Late Still Lifes and Interiors (exhibition catalogue), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009, p. 71). Like the Symbolist poets before him, Bonnard firmly believed that "to name an object is to destroy three-quarters of the pleasure we take in it, which is derived from the enjoyment of guessing by degrees; of suggesting it" (Sarah Whitfield & John Elderfield, Bonnard (exhibition catalogue), Tate Gallery, London, 1998, pp. 12-13).
A playful exercise in self-introspection, Pommes dans un plat sur une nappe confirms Bonnard’s position among the greatest pioneers of modern still-life painting. Displaying parallels with the seventeenth-century grandfather of this genre, Jean-Siméon Chardin, this work also follows the path set out by Paul Cézanne (see fig. 1). Where Cézanne scientifically examines the spatial relations of the numerous objects depicted, Bonnard focuses on the ephemerality of first impressions. As the artist and writer Patrick Heron remarked, Bonnard "knows how to make a virtue of emptiness, how to keep a great expanse of picture surface intensely meaningful" (quoted in ibid., p. 32).
Collectors often choose this fine art image when searching for fine art oil painting that feels substantial rather than decorative or disposable.
This is a genuine hand painted oil painting, not a canvas print. Our painters match the palette of Apples in a Plate on a Tablecloth by eye and build up the fine art forms in thin layers, which is what gives the finished fine art oil painting its luminosity.
Hang this fine art oil painting above a sofa, console, or bed to give a dining room an instant focal point. Its post-impressionist palette works with both minimalist and period interiors, and the piece also makes a considered gift for housewarmings, weddings, and art lovers.
Order Apples in a Plate on a Tablecloth as a hand painted oil painting on canvas and add lasting post-impressionist character to your dining room. Custom sizes, a digital proof before dispatch, and secure worldwide shipping are included.
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| 20 X 24 in | $47.98 |
| 24 X 36 in | $77.98 |
| 30 X 40 in | $104.48 |
| 36 X 48 in | $149.48 |
| 48 X 72 in | $291.98 |
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