Paintings Drawings Sculptures 2016 - Jean Luc Baroni

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2. Pierre Bonnard, Andrée Terrasse and her son <strong>Jean</strong>, Alice Mason collection, New York. 3. Pierre Bonnard, Les Trois Ages or Maternité, oil on canvas, Private collection, USA. painted his wife feeding their child under blossoming apple trees and Bonnard seems to have encountered Mary Cassatt’s colour etchings of women in domestic environments which were much inspired by Japanese prints. Bonnard was certainly greatly impressed by the exhibition of Japanese prints held at the École des Beaux Arts in April 1890 1 and himself was known by his artist friends as the Nabis très japonard 2. He found something tremendously alive and extremely clever in the popular Japanese prints he could thereafter buy so cheaply 3 . His work of this period reveals that he was inspired not only by the flattened, decorative surface of Japanese woodblocks but also by their strong colours and tenacious grip on realism; Bonnard focused on the world around him and was not drawn to the esoteric symbolism Gauguin and other Nabis figures played with, although of course his own images of domesticity do achieve a universal power. This tender depiction of a mother and baby is an archetype of Bonnard’s artistic experiments in the early 1890s. It shows the artist’s sister, Andrée, wife of the composer Claude Terrasse (1867-1923), and his nephew, <strong>Jean</strong>. The close focus on the baby’s momentary movement and the intimate detail of the mother’s raised shoulder and inclined head create a sense of the instantaneous becoming permanent. The unshaded, simplified features of the two heads float against the green background and are animated by the chequered pattern of the mother’s sleeve. This latter motif is a quintessential Nabis effect of the kind also executed by Vuillard but, here, both the Japonism in the graphic style and the benign emotional intensity are distinctly Bonnard’s. The artist studied this motif a number of times in an effort to perfect it: in a drawing in chalk and pastel 4 , in a second watercolour(fig.1) 5 , of a similar size but slightly more sketchy in effect and without the elaborate monogram seen here, as well as in a small painting on canvas (fig.2) 6. A second painting dated 1893 entitled Les Trois Ages or Maternité (fig.3), shows the mother and child, in reversed direction, with the grandmother beside them 7 . He then transposed the present image into the colour lithograph entited Family Scene of 1893, including in the foreground his own profile head looking on (fig.4) 8 . This is the second of two lithographs with the title Family Scene, the first, dating from the previous year, being horizontal in format and showing a somewhat pugilistic looking baby being presented to his grandfather. The monogram PB appears also on a watercolour of a Woman with a Dog, now in the Museum of Fine Art, Springfield, Massachusetts, which is dated to 1892 and appears to show Andrée Terrasse wearing the same checked dress as in the present work. It is then used again, at the beginning of the signature on the two Family Scene lithographs. Bonnard had an 146
4. Pierre Bonnard, Family Scene, lithograph. extremely close relationship with his sister and her husband and was influential in introducing Claude Terrasse to the avant garde artistic world. Bonnard also illustrated, with charming scenes from everyday life, two of Terrasse’s publishing projects, a primer for children and a collection of piano pieces: Petit Solfège illustré and Scènes familières. 9 In the same year this watercolour was made, Bonnard met Ambrose Vollard and began a very fruitful collaboration on projects for book illustration. Bonnard later declared that the editions he [Vollard] made will remain and few men will have the courage to make such masterpieces 10 . The lessons in style and technique learnt through the invention of the present watercolour and its related lithograph are surely central to this aspect of Bonnard’s career. 147
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