Pierre Bonnard - Girl Playing with a Dog [1913]

Pierre Bonnard - Girl Playing with a Dog [1913], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.

Pierre Bonnard (3 October 1867 – 23 January 1947) was a French painter and printmaker, a founding member of Les Nabis. Bonnard is known for his intense use of colour, especially via areas built with small brush marks and close values. His often complex compositions, typically of sunlit interiors of rooms and gardens populated with friends and family members, are both narrative and autobiographical. His wife Marthe was an ever-present subject over the course of several decades. She is seen seated at the kitchen table, with the remnants of a meal; or nude, as in a series of paintings where she reclines in the bathtub. He also painted several self-portraits, landscapes, and many still lifes which usually depict flowers and fruit.

Bonnard did not paint from life but rather drew his subject, sometimes photographing it as well, and made notes on the colours. He then painted the canvas in his studio from his notes.

[Oil on canvas, 75 cm x 80 cm]