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At the Musée de Grenoble, the colorful world of Pierre Bonnard

2021-11-24T14:23:12.872Z


REPORT - In town and at sea, in Normandy and on the Côte d'Azur, at home and abroad, the “Nabi Japonard” had only one objective: to sublimate light through color.


Special envoy to Grenoble

"What will we want when we get out of confinement?"

This is the question asked a few months ago by Guy Tosatto, director of the Grenoble Museum and Isabelle Cahn, former curator of paintings at the Musée d'Orsay. And the two friends respond with a desire for pure paintings, very bright and immersive.

"A bath of colors, just for fun."

Today it is available to all dives in this bath, comfortably fitted out in the Isère institution. Where, for the occasion, the high white walls alternate with azure blue walls, eggplant, chocolate ...

Sophie Bernard, curator in charge of the site's modern and contemporary collections, was the linchpin of this presentation, which is not quite a Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) retrospective, but almost.

The course, very vast, is indeed rich of 75 oils of the one that the critic Félix Fénéon nicknamed "the very Japanese nabi" because of his passion for prints.

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Source: lefigaro

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