In the town of Le Cannet on the Cote d'Azur has opened a museum by Pierre Bonnard

Museum Bonnard. Le Cannet, French Riviera
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Pierre Bonnard
overcast sky above Cannes. 1945
Oil on canvas. 51 x 75 Private Collection

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Sometimes it seems that every town in the south of France has its own artist and patron. Nice favors Matisse, Antibes - Picasso, and in Aix-en-Provence, you can not take a step, so as not to stumble on a memorial sign or a sculpture dedicated to Cezanne. Now, another famous French painter - Pierre Bonnard (Pierre Bonnard) got a memorable home on the French Riviera town of Le Cannet.

small town, situated in the hills near Cannes, became a haven for Bonnard as much as 25 years. Now, thanks to the new Museum of Bonnard, Le Cannet in the "settled" and the works of French neoimpressionista. This is the first museum devoted entirely to Pierre Bonnard, he opened an exhibition in July, "and Bonnard Le Cannet: In light of the Mediterranean».

From 1926 until his death in 1947 Bonnard lived here with his wife Martha in a modest cottage "Bosquet" ("grove") on the beach. It was said if a couple bought a house in this quiet place as a refuge from the bad memories of previous suicide lover Bonnard - Rene Monshati (Renée Montchaty). Some liken the town of Le Cannet flowering Giverny by Claude Monet, and believe that it is in this seaside town Bonnard wrote his best paintings. Indeed, much of the interior still lifes and images presented in the framework of a retrospective of Bonnard at the Metropolitan Museum in 2009, belonged to the period of his life in the "Bosquet».

Museum Director Véronique Serrano (Véronique Serrano ), formerly a curator at the Museum of the cantina at Marseilles, hoping that the new house-museum will attract attention not only to his colleagues in the shop and devoted fans of his work, but also wider circles of society. Although Bonnard not as well known as Picasso, his works are still rising in price: for example, in February at Christie's work "Terrace at Vernon," was sold for 11.6 million dollars

The Museum occupies a renovated villa Belle Epoque (1890-1914), which was saved from demolition. While in the permanent collection of approximately 150 papers: posters, drawings, sculptures, photographs, 15 paintings, most of which were created in the "Bosquet". The museum is managed by the municipality, the funds for its support comes from the special fund of 2 million euros, as well as from the American Foundation of Meyer (Meyer Foundation) and the great-niece of the artist Isabel Terrace (Isabelle Terrasse), which still uses the villa "Bosquet" as summer house. The museum plans during the winter lull to stand as a permanent collection, which until the schedule takes precedence over painting, and in the summer to conduct thematic exhibitions devoted to Bonnard.

current exhibition at the museum, which will last until September 25, consists of four sections and provides the visitors more than 70 works, half of which are picturesque. The first section demonstrates the work, written by Bonnard in the south of France, notably in Saint-Tropez and Antibes, home to Picasso. The second part of the exhibition explores the work of interior genre, here attention is drawn to the air picture, "Bath" with bathing Martha (1925) - Tate lent work. Next is a group of landscapes, and finally, complete the exhibition later, and the most vivid creations Bonnard, in which he is never close to abstraction.

modesty charmed critics of the Museum of Bonnard in "an era when art and architecture are distinguished by excessive narcissism. " "The modest charm of Bonnard and his new home should be welcomed with joy," - wrote the Financial Times.

Prepared Onuchina Maria, AI

Source: artinvestment.ru