It can be hard to let things go, especially when that ‘thing’ is an artwork you’ve toiled over for weeks, months, or even years. No one found this as difficult, perhaps, as French Post-Impressionist ...

Marcel Proust was perhaps the most sensitive novelist of the 20th century, uncannily and unforgettably attuned to smells (“smells lazy and punctual as a village clock, roving and settled, heedless and ...

The first West Coast survey of the art of Pierre Bonnard in half a century will open at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in early February 2016. Deeming Lincoln Park the more Arcadian of the ...

“It is always so interesting to see which artists come in and out of favor, and why,” said Esther Bell, curator in charge of European painting at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, in a recent ...

Pierre Bonnard, unlike his older contemporary, Paul Gauguin, never visited Australia, yet Bonnard’s influence on Australian art is pervasive and profound. This unusual and magnificent exhibition at ...

Born just outside of Paris, Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947), the son of a highly placed bureaucrat in the French War Ministry, was one of the defining figures of modernism in the transitional period ...

Walking around this major retrospective of Pierre Bonnard, you quickly discover that his work is dominated by two things. First, there is his relationship with Marthe de Meligny, his wife and muse.

Pablo Picasso “detested” Pierre Bonnard, says Guy Cogeval, president of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay. It’s easy to see why. In the early 20th century, Picasso and members of experimental groups such as the ...

Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) was unusual because he painted only from memory, never from life. He inscribed his datebook daily with a small pencil sketch and a one or two-word summary of the weather: ...

Bonnard’s exhibition at Tate Modern features beautiful, bold landscapes. But what’s behind his oddly expressed foot fetish? I think it’s about time we all admitted it: Pierre Bonnard was no dab hand ...