Garden in Vernon or Landscape at the Edge of the Seine by Pierre Bonnard

Garden in Vernon or Landscape at the Edge of the Seine - Pierre Bonnard - Canvas Wall Art

At a Glance

Garden in Vernon or Landscape at the Edge of the Seine - Pierre Bonnard - Canvas Wall Art is part of our hand painted oil painting collection from the Pierre Bonnard Paintings selection. Each canvas is worked by a trained artist, then inspected before dispatch — a practical route to owning post-impressionist wall decor at a fraction of gallery pricing.

The Story Behind the Painting

JARDIN à VERNON OR PAYSAGE AU BORD DE LA SEINE
circa 1916
Oil on canvas
Private Collection, France.

The subject of this lush, colourful oil is the landscape at Vernon, on the right bank of the river Seine. Bonnard moved to the village of Vernonnet, near Vernon, in 1912, and lived in a small house known as 'Ma Roulotte' until the late 1920s. Vernonnet is situated only a few kilometres west of Giverny, where Monet had lived and worked for nearly thirty years, and the two men became close friends. Unlike Monet, who painted his carefully planned garden, Bonnard was fascinated with the wild nature around the river Seine, and the wild flowers, shrubs and trees in his overgrown garden. He painted a number of views from the large balcony of 'Ma Roulotte', and often ventured down the river where he painted the poplars and willows that lined its banks.

Jardin à Vernon reflects the artist's fascination with the lush nature of the region, which he transformed into a rich, yet carefully developed composition. The wild trees on the river bank act as a window that reveals the water and the nature beyond it, all rendered in a saturated palette. As James Elliott observed: 'Bonnard was essentially a colorist. He devoted his main creative energies to wedding his sensations of color from nature to those from paint itself – sensations which he said thrilled and even bewildered him. Perceiving color with a highly developed sensitivity, he discovered new and unfamiliar effects from which he selected carefully, yet broadly and audaciously. [...] Whether in narrow range or multitudinous variety, the colors move across the surface of his paintings in constantly shifting interplay, lending an extraordinary fascination to common subjects. Familiar sights – the pervading greenness of a landscape, the intensification of color in objects on a lightly overcast day – are given vivid life' (J. Elliott, in Bonnard and His Environment (exhibition catalogue), Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1964, p. 25).

The landscape subject is rebuilt stroke by stroke in oil, giving the finished canvas the depth expected of post-impressionist oil painting wall decor.

100% Hand Painted on Canvas

From primer to varnish, the work is done manually on artist-grade canvas. The absence of digital printing is deliberate: it keeps the landscape brushwork visible and gives the post-impressionist oil painting wall decor a museum-like finish.

Specifications & What You Receive

• Genuine hand painted oil painting on premium artist canvas; no printing or digital imaging is used.
• A generous 2-inch blank canvas border surrounds the image to simplify mounting.
• Direct-from-studio worldwide delivery with no third-party resellers.
• Available canvas sizes for this hand painted oil painting: 20 X 24 in, 24 X 36 in, 30 X 40 in, 36 X 48 in, 48 X 72 in.
• Made-to-measure options are available for this landscape canvas.
• Flexible shipping through DHL, UPS, FedEx, USPS and partner networks.
• Complimentary stretching over wooden stretcher bars; ask us about a custom frame.
• A digital photo of your finished painting is emailed for approval before shipment.

Styling & Placement

As office wall decor, this canvas brings color and texture without visual noise. It scales well from a small study to a large home office feature wall, and it is a reliable choice when shopping for landscape oil painting as a gift.

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