1946, Pierre Bonnard, Before Noon -- Phillips Collection (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the exhibition label: In Before Noon, Bonnard uses color at maximum intensity. The view is from inside his home Le Bosquet, through the doorway leading onto the gravel terrace. The stripe of hot pink at left is the door frame, and the irregular brown stripe at right is the door with a dark brown handle. Bonnard attempts to render the garden light through patches of yellow and white paint layered with blue, green, and pink. This shimmering cloud almost absorbs the shapes it encounters--the back of a garden chair or the figure entering the composition from behind the door frame.
1946, Pierre Bonnard, Before Noon -- Phillips Collection (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the exhibition label: In Before Noon, Bonnard uses color at maximum intensity. The view is from inside his home Le Bosquet, through the doorway leading onto the gravel terrace. The stripe of hot pink at left is the door frame, and the irregular brown stripe at right is the door with a dark brown handle. Bonnard attempts to render the garden light through patches of yellow and white paint layered with blue, green, and pink. This shimmering cloud almost absorbs the shapes it encounters--the back of a garden chair or the figure entering the composition from behind the door frame.