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Looking for landscape oil painting with real brushwork? Autumn Morning (The Great View of Vernon) is reproduced by hand in oils on artist-grade canvas after Pierre Bonnard. The result is a piece of post-impressionist oil painting wall decor that anchors a living room and rewards a closer look.
MATINéE D’AUTOMNE (LA GRANDE VUE DE VERNON)
circa 1922
Oil on canvas
42 3/8 x 51 5/8 in.
Private Collection, Paris.
This sprawling panoramic of the idyllic countryside in the Eure Valley was the subject of several of Bonnard’s most impressive canvases of the 1910s and early 1920s. The vista is one that Bonnard encountered on his walks through Vernon, the region surrounding his house “Ma Roulotte.” The artist’s nephew Charles Terrasse described the setting, which is depicted in this monumental painting from 1922: “It stood between the river and the road that led from the village of Vernonnet to Pressagny, like a hyphen between road and river… [Bonnard] described the view from his window, or from the top of the neighboring hill: the pale green and golden fields of early summer; the riverbanks lined with poplars, elms, ash trees, and the silvery patches of willows; the majestic river itself, alive with boars, and blue in the sunshine or lead-gray in the rain” (quoted in Pierre Bonnard, Early and Late, (exhibition catalogue), The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. and the Denver Art Museum, 2003, p. 37).
The landscapes that Bonnard painted in the 1920s, including the present work, marked a turning point in the artist’s style. As Nicholas Watkins explains, “Bonnard’s art was always very much based on reality, but a distinction can be made between his northern and southern landscapes: whereas in the former he was more concerned with capturing the transient effects of weather, in the latter the permanence of atmosphere drew him into an alternative Mediterranean vision of a classical Golden Age. Cézanne and Renoir, rather than Monet, became his mentors in the south. The greens of his first terrace decoration at Vernon gave way to the pervasive golden light of his two main southern decorations of the 1920s, La Palme, 1926 and Paysage du Cannet, 1928” (Nicholas Watkins, op. cit., p. 156). The present work, which showcases that intense greenery of Vernon, exemplifies the best of this production before the artist headed south for the Midi.
Through his involvement with the Nabis at the beginning of the century, Bonnard had grown accustomed to using decorative stylistic elements in his paintings, such as flattened patches of color and bold contours. In his depictions of the southern French landscape, his use of this technique was extraordinarily effective in conveying the variations in the terrain. In the present work, he uses interlacing patches of color to form the mountain range, the dense forest and the field in the foreground, with the fluffy-tailed hare running in retreat.
Every hand painted oil painting in this landscape series is finished on artist-grade canvas and checked against the original before it leaves the studio.
This is a genuine hand painted oil painting, not a canvas print. Our painters match the palette of Autumn Morning (The Great View of Vernon) by eye and build up the landscape forms in thin layers, which is what gives the finished landscape oil painting its luminosity.
Hang this landscape oil painting above a sofa, console, or bed to give a living 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 Autumn Morning (The Great View of Vernon) as a hand painted oil painting on canvas and add lasting post-impressionist character to your living room. Custom sizes, a digital proof before dispatch, and secure worldwide shipping are included.
| Size | Price |
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| 20 X 24 in | $58.48 |
| 24 X 36 in | $91.98 |
| 30 X 40 in | $123.48 |
| 36 X 48 in | $176.98 |
| 48 X 72 in | $329.48 |
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