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Upgrade your walls with At the Races, Longchamp - Pierre Bonnard - Oil Painting Wall Decor. Every fine art reproduction is painted entirely by hand, so the surface carries the depth and variation of an original oil painting rather than the flatness of a digital canvas print.
AUX COURSES (LONGCHAMP)
circa 1894
Oil on panel
Private Collection.
Painted in 1894, Aux courses reflects on the tradition of equestrian painting established by Bonnard’s predecessors: Gericault, Delacroix, Manet and Degas. For these artists, horse races served as a testament to their abilities, from capturing the grace and agility of the horses to the alluring culture and fashion surrounding the race. As often found in Bonnard’s paintings, the artist explores the essence of an environment; he strikes a balance between the architectural formalities of space and the nature of an evolving movement. Bonnard plays with composition and color, juxtaposing the fretful foreground, filled with spectators, against the verdant rolling fields of the countryside behind them. By doing so, Bonnard’s painting captures the spirit of modern life: its fleeting moments and social theatrics. He depicts the horse races as a public spectacle, not solely focusing on the horses and riders. Furthermore, Bonnard does not distance the riders from the public, painting them amongst the fashionably dressed spectators.
However, Bonnard was not interested in what was merely fashionable. Rather, he sought to depict the captivating incidents of the everyday. Critic Roger Marx praised Bonnard for his ability to capture unconscious gestures, writing that Bonnard “has the gift for picking out and quickly seizing the picturesque in every spectacle” (quoted in Pierre Bonnard, The Graphic Art (exhibition catalogue), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1989, p. 127). By depicting the group of horses and riders in a seemingly haphazard configuration, Bonnard’s works seems as if it’s captured photographically, adding to the painting’s ephemeral quality.
Our artists reproduce this fine art composition in oil on canvas by hand, preserving the tonal range that makes fine art oil painting so sought after for an entryway.
Materials matter for post-impressionist wall decor. That is why this piece is built on artist-grade canvas with lightfast oil colors, applied by hand rather than output from a printer, and sealed for long-term display.
Style it over a fireplace, behind a reading chair, or along a staircase. Wherever it goes, this post-impressionist oil painting wall decor adds the layered color that only a hand painted canvas provides.
| Size | Price |
|---|---|
| 20 X 24 in | $77.98 |
| 24 X 36 in | $120.48 |
| 30 X 40 in | $166.48 |
| 36 X 48 in | $221.48 |
| 48 X 72 in | $430.48 |
The sizes shown are the reproduction canvas sizes we paint to order. The dimensions given in a work's description refer to the original artwork and will differ from the sizes offered here. Not sure? Read the size guide or e-mail us.
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