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Looking for still life oil painting with real brushwork? Flowered Garden Corner (Cactus) 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 bedroom and rewards a closer look.
COIN DE JARDIN FLEURI OR CACTUS
1912
Oil on canvas
28 x 24 3/4 in.
Coin de jardin fleuri, also known as Cactus, painted in 1912, is an exemplary work which demonstrates Bonnard’s delight in painting domestic landscapes. This lusciously hued canvas depicts the corner of a garden overlooking a cerulean blue horizon which the artist has entirely saturated with light and colour. In the summer of 1912 Bonnard and his model and companion Marthe visited Grasse in the south of France, before returning to Normandy and purchasing a house in the hamlet of Vernonnet called 'Ma Roulotte', where they lived until the late 1920s. Vernonnet is situated only a couple of miles west of Giverny, where Monet had lived and worked for nearly thirty years, and the two men became close friends. Bonnard’s garden scenes delighted in a typically post-impressionist rejection of traditional perspective, but unlike his new neighbour, he never resorted to pure abstraction. Jean-Louis Prat notes: ‘Bonnard always developed his own visual language, firmly rooted in reality. He did not, like Monet, virtually do away with the subject itself. He always used forms, without experimenting with abstraction, or even contemplating it’ (J.-L. Prat, ‘Pierre Bonnard or An Enduring Painter’ in Bonnard(exhibition catalogue), Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, 1999, p. 19). Bonnard’s pictures - composed of pure colours and displaying a limited perspective - captured views of untrammelled wild flowers, exotic foliage and trees against clear skies and evoking an identifiable sense of edenic exuberance.
The present work marks the beginning of the final stage in Bonnard’s maturation as a painter. Throughout the following three decades the artist concentrated on depicting his immediate surroundings in a purely tonal fashion. The artist wrote: ‘Colour alone will suffice to express all one wants to say... there is no need for highlighting or modelling in painting. It seemed possible for me to reproduce light, shape and character by the use of colour alone, without the help of any values’ (quoted in Antoine Terrasse, ‘Some Thoughts on Pierre Bonnard’ in Bonnard (exhibition catalogue), Galerie Salis, Salzburg, 1991, n.p.). Furthermore Bonnard stated in 1935: ‘I have become a painter of landscapes, not because I have painted landscapes - I have done only a few - but because I have acquired the soul of a landscape painter insofar as I have been able to free myself of everything picturesque, aesthetical or any other convention that has been poisoning me’ (quoted in ibid., n.p.).
Collectors often choose this still life image when searching for still life oil painting that feels substantial rather than decorative or disposable.
From primer to varnish, the work is done manually on artist-grade canvas. The absence of digital printing is deliberate: it keeps the still life brushwork visible and gives the post-impressionist oil painting wall decor a museum-like finish.
As bedroom wall art, this canvas brings color and texture without visual noise. It scales well from a small study to a large bedroom feature wall, and it is a reliable choice when shopping for still life oil painting as a gift.
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| Size | Price |
|---|---|
| 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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