Shop art print and framed art Dining Room on the Garden by Pierre Bonnard

Country Dining Room is a painting by French artist Pierre Bonnard, an oil on canvas measuring 168 × 204 cm, painted in 1913. It is kept at the Minneapolis Art Institute. In 1912, Bonnard bought a country house in Verbon, a small town on the Seine, which was called "Ma Roulotte" (My Caravan). The current painting, created in 1913, depicts the dining room of his country house. On the canvas he presents cats sitting on chairs, and Martha, his wife, leaning on a windowsill. A large table, with a white towel, appears in the foreground, while a arms chair appears to the right, and another one is partially seen at the left. The door and the window are wide open and also open the space of the painting to the landscape outside. Bonnard in this work was able to emphasize the expressive qualities of bright colors and large strokes. He combined the interior of the room with the "outside world", the garden seen through an open window and door, and connected different forms through playing with shades. However, unlike most impressionist painters, Bonnard created this canvas entirely from memory. The interior of the dining room is furnished with a round table with two plates on a light blue tablecloth, a small table with a vase of poppies, the same red colour as the walls of the room, and an armchair with a white cat. Through a light blue door and a large window, the dining room opens onto the garden, filled with flowers and colourful plants. Facing the window, the painter's wife, depicted [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the nabis style.

 

« Dining Room on the Garden » is kept at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States.

 

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