Bonnard et la poésie d'un objet ordinaire. Archéologie généralité They were very much outsiders

They were very much outsiders

as well as views of Italian sites that the artists brought back from their travels

This book reveals its metaphorical and social richness

of infinite perspectives

Noël Bellemare

Bonnard et la poésie d'un objet ordinaire. Archéologie généralité They were very much outsidersBetween around 1910 and the mid 1930s, a vase with a rather banal decoration of cherry branches, leaves, and fruit appeared in Pierre Bonnard's work. An object created before 1911 in the workshops of the Lebacqz & Bouchart pottery in northern France, this water pitcher fascinated the painter to the point that he produced around thirty paintingsalmost exclusively still lifes, but also a nude and two interiors. It is well known that rare objects held