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Pierre Bonnard was the leader of the group of post-impressionist painters who called themselves "the Nabis", from the Hebrew word for "prophet". Influenced by Odilon Redon, Puvis de Chavannes, popular imagery, and Japanese woodblock printing, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton and Denis (to name the most prominent members) revolutionised the spirit of decorative technique during one of the richest periods in French painting.
Although the increasing individualism of their works often threatened to weaken their unity, the Nabis were above all a group of close friends. The artwork presented in this book − varying between Bonnard's guilelessness, Vuillard's ornamental and mysterious works, Denis's soft languor and Vallotton's almost bitter roughness − plunges us into the deep source of their creative talents.
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Table of contents
1The Nabis
2The Group
3A lthough Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, Roussel and
4Musée départemental Maurice Denis “Le Prieuré“, Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
5The last three decades of
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6The main “disturber of
7Of
8studio on
9Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris.
10Major Artists
11Félix VALLOTTON (1865-1925)
12indeed, of
13Ker Xavier ROUSSEL
14Pierre BONNARD (1867-1947)
15the latest issue of
16Private collection.
17the then fashionable subject of
18The middle of
19National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
20the wise warmth of
21Édouard VUILLARD (1868-1940)
22Maurice DENIS (1870-1943)
23In this ensemble, with
2430 Letter to Pierre Courthion (P. Courthion, “Impromptus – Pierre
252 Ibid.
2633 A. Terrasse, Pierre Bonnard, Paris, 1967, p. 10
275 B. Dorival, Les Peintres du XXe siècle, Paris, 1957, p. 16
2835 A. Terrasse, Pierre Bonnard, p. 44
297 A. Terrasse, Bonnard, Geneva, 1964, p. 54
3036 Th. Natanson, op. cit., p. 170
318 Bonnard, Exhibition Catalogue, Musée de Lyon, Lyon, 1954
3237 Quoted from A. Terrasse, Bonnard, Geneva, 1964, p. 40
3339 A. Terrasse, Pierre Bonnard, Paris, 1967, p. 94
3441 Th. Natanson, op. cit., p. 104
3512 V. F. Khodasevich, Necropolis, Reminiscences, Paris, 1976, pp. 10, 11
3643 Ibid.
3713 Ch. Chassé, Les Nabis et leur temps, Lausanne-Paris, 1960
3844 A. Vaillant, Bonnard, London, 1966, p. 113
3945 Bonnard and his Environment, New York, 1966, p. 11
4046 Th. Natanson, op. cit., p. 87
4115 Gazette de Lausanne, 4 May 1893
4217 A. Vaillant, Bonnard, London, 1966, p. 109
4350 A. Aurier, “Les Symbolistes”, Revue Encyclopédique, Paris, 1892, no. 1, April
4451 G. Geffroy, La Vie artistique, 2e série, Paris, 1893, p. 382
4552 J. Salomon, Vuillard, Paris, 1968, p. 29
4623 A. Terrasse, Bonnard, Geneva, 1964, p. 24
4755 Dom W. Verkade, Le Tourment de Dieu, Paris, 1926, p. 78
4824 Dom W. Verkade, Le Tourment de Dieu, Paris, 1926, p. 80
4926 Th. Natanson, op. cit., p. 100
5058 M. Denis, Sérusier, sa vie, son Œuvre, Paris, 1943, p. 64