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The Red Mill: Flower Market - Pierre Bonnard - Bedroom Wall Art brings gallery-caliber art into everyday spaces. This still life oil painting is a 100% hand painted oil painting on canvas, created for buyers who want genuine post-impressionist canvas wall art instead of a mass-produced poster or paper print.
LE MOULIN ROUGE: MARCHANDE DE FLEURS
1896
Oil on board laid down on cradled panel
Private Collection.
The present work is the recently discovered third panel of the triptych Le Moulin Rouge or Place Blanche (Terrasse de Café).
Painted in 1896, Le Moulin Rouge dates from the artist's renowned period of association with the Nabis, a group of young artists including édouard Vuillard, Maurice Denis, Paul Sérusier and Félix Vallotton. Following upon the example of Paul Gauguin and his Pont-Aven style, the Nabis concerned themselves with the textural quality of painting, or as Denis once explained, "expression through decorative quality, through harmony of forms and color, through the application of pigments, to expression through subject" (quoted in John Rewald, Pierre Bonnard (exhibition catalogue), The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1948, p. 15). Bonnard incorporated these stylistic qualities into Marchande de fleurs, particularly in the way he has flattened the perspective of his composition so that all of the figures appear on an equal register. We can also see evidence of Bonnard's early training as a printmaker: the sharp contrast of dark and bright colors and the absence of tonal gradation are similar to the quality of a woodcut or decorative wall panel. He offers in this work an eloquent and boldly modern interpretation of the bustling outdoor cafes of Paris - then the center of cultural vivacity and bohemian splendor. As elegantly appointed women enjoy the outdoor tables, a flower-girl offers her wares and a stagecoach passes through the street beyond them. What might be customarily displayed as a horizontal narrative has here been presented in a vertical format that illustrates Bonnard's artistic abilities with spatial representation.
The verticality of this work also demonstrates Bonnard's fascination with Asian visual culture (see fig. 1). The artist had seen several reproductions of Japanese art in the department stores around Paris and once explained his good fortune at having come across these images: "...I found for one or two sous thick crepe material or crushed rice paper in astonishing colors. I'm filling up my room with this na?ve and boisterous imagery. Gauguin, Serusier looked back to the past, in fact. But here, what I had in front of me, was something that was completely alive, extremely sophisticated" (quoted in Michael Terrasse, Bonnard, From the Drawings to the Paintings, Paris, 1996, p. 17).
Our artists reproduce this still life composition in oil on canvas by hand, preserving the tonal range that makes still life oil painting so sought after for a bedroom.
This is a genuine hand painted oil painting, not a canvas print. Our painters match the palette of The Red Mill: Flower Market by eye and build up the still life forms in thin layers, which is what gives the finished still life oil painting its luminosity.
Hang this still life 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.
Order The Red Mill: Flower Market as a hand painted oil painting on canvas and add lasting post-impressionist character to your bedroom. Custom sizes, a digital proof before dispatch, and secure worldwide shipping are included.
| Size | Price |
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| 20 X 40 in | $102.98 |
| 24 X 48 in | $152.48 |
| 30 X 60 in | $214.98 |
| 36 X 72 in | $276.48 |
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