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Pierre Bonnard was a successful painter, draughtsman, printmaker and illustrator. Bonnard, born in 1867 in Paris, Bonnard was a key transitional figure between the Impressionism of artists such as Monet and Cezanne and the Modernism of his contemporaries, Picasso and Matisse. As a bridge between two schools, Pierre Bonnard has always been an acknowledged master of color and light. Working much of the time from his light-filled villa outside Cannes, he painted more than 2000 works, 384 of them of Marthe, a mistress who became his wife and for decades was his model for intimate nudes. In the 1890s he was associated with the Nabis, who were interested in manipulating color and composition to evoke a feeling or a mood. Bonnard continually experimented with alternative media and drew from a range of sources, both Eastern and Western.
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