Intimism or Intimisme
- The intimate domestic
interior scenes painted by Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867-1947)
and Edouard Vuillard (French, 1868-1940) from the 1890s on. Their
styles were different but owed much
to their coloring and their move
away from the naturalism
of the Nabis. Intimism is
the English spelling; Intimisme the French spelling.
Examples:
Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867-1947), Dining
Room in the Country, 1913, oil
on canvas, 64 3/4 x 81
inches, Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Pierre Bonnard, Coffee, 1915, oil
on canvas, 73.0 x 106.4
cm, Tate Gallery, London.
Pierre Bonnard, The Bowl of Milk, c. 1919, oil
on canvas, 116.2 x 121.0
cm, Tate Gallery, London.
Pierre Bonnard, Before Dinner, 1924, oil on canvas, 35 1/2 x 42 inches (90.2 x 106.7 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Pierre Bonnard, The Red Blouse, 1925, oil
on canvas, 50 x 52 cm,
Georges Pompidou Center, Paris.
Pierre Bonnard, The Table, 1925, oil
on canvas, 102.9 x 74.3
cm, Tate Gallery, London.
Pierre Bonnard, Dining Room Overlooking the Garden (The Breakfast Room), 1930-31, oil on canvas, 62 7/8 x 44 7/8 inches (159.6 x 113.8 cm), Museum of Modern Art, NY.
Pierre Bonnard, Nude at Her Bath, 1931, oil
on canvas, 120 x 110 cm,
Georges Pompidou Center, Paris. See nude.
Pierre Bonnard, The Bathroom, 1932, oil on canvas, 47 5/8 x 46 1/2 inches (121 x 118.2 cm), Museum of Modern Art, NY.
Pierre Bonnard, Back of a Nude at Her Bath, 1934, oil on canvas,
107.3 x 74 cm, Georges Pompidou Center, Paris.
Pierre Bonnard, Self-Portrait in the Bathroom Mirror,
1939-1945, oil on canvas,
73 x 51 cm, Georges Pompidou Center, Paris. See self-portrait.
Pierre
Bonnard, The Terrace at Vernonnet, 1939, oil
on canvas, 58 1/4 x 76
3/4 inches (148 x 194.9 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Edouard Vuillard (born Jean Edouard Vuillard)
(French, 1868-1940), Les coulisses du Théâtre de l'Oeuvre,
about 1894, oil on panel, 18 3/4 x 17 3/4 inches, Minneapolis
Institute of Arts.
Edouard Vuillard, Interior with Hanging Lamp (Interior with Ceiling
Lamp), 1899, color lithograph on paper,
13 3/4 x 11 inches, Roger-Marx number 35 III, Plate IV, one of
ten color lithographs exhibited from "Landscapes and Interiors
(Paysages et Interieurs)", a portfolio
of twelve lithographs published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris, 1899,
Museum of Modern Art, NY. This work was exhibited in the influential
Armory Show of 1913.
Edouard Vuillard, L'Entrée de la Villa, 1903, oil on canvas,
77.5 x 58.5 cm, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran.
Edouard Vuillard, Place St. Augustin, 1912-1913, gouache on brown paper,
60 x 76 1/2 inches, Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Also see French art.
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