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The Blue Corsage - Pierre Bonnard - Fine Art Canvas Wall Art suits both traditional and modern interiors. As a fine art oil painting, it works as a standalone focal point or as part of a bedroom gallery wall, and unlike a print it is genuinely hand painted in oils.
LE CORSAGE BLEU
circa 1924
Oil on canvas
Private Collection.
In 1893, Claude Roger-Marx wrote that Bonnard 'catches fleeting poses, steals unconscious gestures, crystallizes the most transient expressions' (C. Roger-Marx, Le Voltaire (1894), quoted in 'Quelques opinions sur Bonnard' in Pierre Bonnard. Les peintures fran?ais nouveaux, no. 19, Paris, 1924, p. 12), and Le Corsage Bleu depicts one of these moments, a momentary gaze captured for eternity yet also seemingly retaining some of its intimate and transitory nature. Bonnard stated that his ambition was 'to show what one sees when one enters a room all of a sudden', a seemingly simple task, but one which forced the artist to confront the nature of perception. The radicalism of this ambition was first fully recognised by Jean Clair in 1984; 'the revolution in painting brought about by Bonnard was that, for the first time, a painter attempted to translate onto canvas the data of a vision that is physiologically 'real'...He was the first artist to have attempted to portray on canvas the integrality of the field of vision and so bring nearer to the eye what classical perspective had kept at a distance' (J. Clair, Les Aventures du neuf optique, Washington & London, 1984, p. 36). In this work the artist carefully picks out certain details and clouds others, mimicking perception in a manner that reveals an intense concern with the nature of vision.
The present work depicts Bonnard's companion Marthe, who featured regularly in the artist's work. Very slight and delicate, Marthe is often depicted in his portraits from the early 1920s as a rather poignant and introspective figure (fig. 1).
Collectors often choose this fine art image when searching for fine art oil painting that feels substantial rather than decorative or disposable.
This is a genuine hand painted oil painting, not a canvas print. Our painters match the palette of The Blue Corsage by eye and build up the fine art forms in thin layers, which is what gives the finished fine art oil painting its luminosity.
Hang this fine art oil painting above a sofa, console, or bed to give a bedroom 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.
| Size | Price |
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| 20 X 20 in | $54.98 |
| 24 X 24 in | $71.98 |
| 30 X 30 in | $104.98 |
| 36 X 36 in | $157.98 |
| 40 X 40 in | $190.48 |
| 48 X 48 in | $260.48 |
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