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Tholoze Street and the Moulin de la Galette - Pierre Bonnard - Oil Painting Wall Decor brings gallery-caliber art into everyday spaces. This cityscape 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 OU MOULIN DE LA GALETTE OU LA RUE THOLOZé ET LE MOULIN DE LA GALETTE
circa 1898
Oil on canvas
An enchanted vision of the anonymous intimacy of city life, Bonnard utilizes his favored aerial vantage point in Le Moulin ou Moulin de la galette ou La Rue Tholozé et le moulin de la galette. Acting as an iconographical symbol, which was a critical conceptual tool for Bonnard and the Nabis group, the instantly recognizable Moulin de la Galette windmill sits at the center of the composition as a surviving remnant of the once active Parisian agrarian community in the face of Hausmanization. Demonstrating the impact of the planar Japanese imagery which had so profoundly influenced Manet and Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard’s choice to use the “elevated vantage point so often found in ukiyo-e woodcut prints suggested…a perspective that was particularly well suited to the expansive display of Paris’s wide and recently modernized boulevards, which Monet, Renoir and others glorified as the parade grounds for the bourgeoisie. By the time Bonnard came of age, the sight of shoppers swarming along the main department-store routes was no longer novel, and the young artist turned his eyes instead to the familiar sights closer at hand, which he strove to present as if they were extraordinary and new…to be sure, nineteenth-century Paris, with its expanding boundaries, its rapidly growing population, its rapidly increasing population, and its increasing prosperity, offered untold new sights” (Colta Ives, Pierre Bonnard: The Graphic Work (exhibition catalogue), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, p. 125-26). A young woman with a painted face, most likely a performer at one of the famed cabaret shows in the area, walks towards the viewer and seemingly begins to enter our space. An indication of the underworld which exists behind the charming streets of Montmartre Le Moulin ou Moulin de la galette ou La Rue Tholozé et le moulin de la galette she represents an honest interpretation of contemporaneous Parisian life.
As entryway wall decor, the piece pairs naturally with other post-impressionist wall art and with warm neutrals, timber, and soft natural light.
We use a 100% hand-painted process: stretched artist-grade canvas, layered oil pigment, and a final protective varnish. There are no inkjet prints or mechanical reproductions in this collection — just a painted cityscape artwork made to order.
Build an entryway gallery wall around this cityscape oil painting, or let it stand alone as a single statement. The hand painted canvas finish keeps the cityscape composition looking intentional in both classic and contemporary rooms.
| Size | Price |
|---|---|
| 20 X 40 in | $89.48 |
| 24 X 48 in | $127.48 |
| 30 X 60 in | $186.48 |
| 36 X 72 in | $234.48 |
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