Woman in an Interior by Pierre Bonnard

Woman in an Interior - Pierre Bonnard - Canvas Wall Art

Product Overview

Woman in an Interior - 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.

Composition & Subject

FEMME DANS UN INTéRIEUR
circa 1903
Oil on canvas

Femme dans un intérieur is a fascinating example of Pierre Bonnard’s domestic interiors. The theme of la vie bourgeoise preoccupied the artist from the time of his earlier intimiste scenes of the 1890s until the end of his career. Shortly before painting this composition, Bonnard had travelled extensively in Northern and Southern Europe with various companions including édouard Vuillard, with whom he travelled to both Italy and Spain (see fig. 1). These trips coincided with a new annual schedule in which Bonnard spent an increasing amount of time outside Paris, and it was on these trips outside urban centers that he developed, from his earlier Nabis style, an interest in Impressionism. Femme dans un interior, while representing the artist’s interest in intimiste scenes, shows a stylistic evolution away from the flat planes of the Japanese woodblock print.

While his style at this time shifted considerably and later would evolve further with his dramatic use of bright color, his interest in painting his surroundings never changed. Bonnard was famously private, yet his personal world was publically exhibited in his art. Sarah Whitfield remarks on the intensely personal nature of his paintings: “Yet, from the start, this modest and most discreet of men, this least public of artists made his daily life the subject of his art, observing steadily and calmly everything that was closest to him: his family, his surroundings, his companion, his animals, ‘I have all my subjects to hand,’ he said, ‘I go and look at them. I take notes. Then I go home. And before I start painting I reflect, I dream...' There is a feeling of closeness, of people living together, quietly going about the mundane household tasks, sitting down to meals together. The moments he chooses to paint are the soothing lulls that punctuate a domestic routine. These are intensely private pictures; as Raymond Cogniat observed: ‘Bonnard never paints the parts of the house where people work or receive visitors’” (quoted in Bonnard (exhibition catalogue), The Museum of Modern Art, New York & The Tate Gallery, London, 1998, pp. 9-10).

As is the case for many of Bonnard’s best interior scenes, this picture requires the viewer to take time to look at the composition and make sense of the spatial relationships among its elements. Bonnard once said that he intended for his pictures "to show what one sees when one enters a room all of a sudden," and the present picture exemplifies this objective. Jean Clair wrote of the experience of looking at Bonnard's paintings, asserting that the artist intended "to paint the feeling of 'visual entirety' that one experiences on entering a room, before one has recognized, distinguished, brought into focus and identified the various details...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" (ibid, p. 33).

As gallery wall art, the piece pairs naturally with other post-impressionist wall art and with warm neutrals, timber, and soft natural light.

100% Hand Painted on Canvas

This is a genuine hand painted oil painting, not a canvas print. Our painters match the palette of Woman in an Interior by eye and build up the figurative forms in thin layers, which is what gives the finished portrait oil painting its luminosity.

Product Details

• 100% hand-painted oil painting on artist-grade canvas — never a print or digital reproduction.
• Supplied with a 2-inch blank border on all four sides for flexible gallery wall display options.
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• Available canvas sizes for this hand painted oil painting: 20 X 20 in, 24 X 24 in, 30 X 30 in, 36 X 36 in, 40 X 40 in, 48 X 48 in.
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Styling & Placement

Hang this portrait oil painting above a sofa, console, or bed to give a gallery wall 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.

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