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Looking for wildlife oil painting with real brushwork? Fishing Port 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.
circa 1942
Gouache and pencil on paper
Pierre Bonnard began his career not as a fine artist but as an illustrator, designing posters and advertisements to earn his keep. One of his early commissions was to design the front cover of a piano book for a new piece of music, which he excitedly wrote home about: "I have a new job to do for the champagne producer, a title-page for sheet music. It is an advertisement waltz which has just been composed" (in a letter to his mother dated March 13, 1891, quoted in Antoine Terrasse, Pierre Bonnard, Illustrator, London, 1989, p. 12). Toward the end of his career, Bonnard returned once again to the medium of print when Louis Carré approached him to produce a series of lithographs with his friend and fellow artist, Jaques Villon. The partnership proved ideal, with Bonnard composing the gouaches and Villon transferring them onto stones. The result was a suite of eleven lithographs known as the Bonnard-Villon album. The present work was chosen by Bonnard and Villon to be the subject of one of these exclusive prints and the original gouache was given to Louis Carré, the patron and instigator of popular collaboration.
The present work typifies the studied delicacy with which Bonnard painted. The insistent strokes of pink and yellow form a soft mosaic of the sky, full of warmth and shimmer, while the vertical lines of the fishing boat masts jut vertically across the horizon line. It is of little wonder that such a fine composition was one of the limited few chosen by the artist to be reproduced. For Bonnard, the most important goal was to create an appealing aesthetic—a composition in which the viewer or owner would find comfort and pleasure: "painting must above all be decorative. Talent will reveal itself in the way lines are arranged. I do not belong to any schools. I am only trying to do something personal" (Pierre Bonnard, quoted in Jorg Zutter, Pierre Bonnard, Observing Nature, Melbourne, 2003). In the present work, the artist has achieved exactly that, executing every masterful stroke with musical precision and attention to harmony.
Every hand painted oil painting in this wildlife series is finished on artist-grade canvas and checked against the original before it leaves the studio.
From primer to varnish, the work is done manually on artist-grade canvas. The absence of digital printing is deliberate: it keeps the wildlife brushwork visible and gives the post-impressionist oil painting wall decor a museum-like finish.
As living room wall decor, this canvas brings color and texture without visual noise. It scales well from a small study to a large living room feature wall, and it is a reliable choice when shopping for wildlife oil painting as a gift.
Whether the search term is wildlife oil painting, living room wall decor, or post-impressionist oil painting wall decor, this hand painted canvas delivers the same thing: a real painted surface, made to your chosen dimensions.
| Size | Price |
|---|---|
| 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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Every canvas is painted by hand in oils on artist-grade stretched canvas, with an extra blank border left for framing. How to care for your painting.
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