1918, Pierre Bonnard, The Terrace -- Phillips Collection (Washington)
From the exhibition label: This scene is set on the terrace above the garden at Ma Roulotte, Bonnard's small home in Vernonnet near Vernon which he purchased six years earlier. The painting was also known by the title Savage Garden, aptly describing the overgrown garden full of wild plants and flowers that Bonnard favored in contrast to the cultivated gardens at Monet's Giverny, located just across the river from Vernon. Just beyond the terrace, nestled between two thin tree trunks, Bonnard includes a male figure in black seated beside a crouching woman in orange; their diminutive presence is overshadowed by the majestic forces of nature.
1918, Pierre Bonnard, The Terrace -- Phillips Collection (Washington)
From the exhibition label: This scene is set on the terrace above the garden at Ma Roulotte, Bonnard's small home in Vernonnet near Vernon which he purchased six years earlier. The painting was also known by the title Savage Garden, aptly describing the overgrown garden full of wild plants and flowers that Bonnard favored in contrast to the cultivated gardens at Monet's Giverny, located just across the river from Vernon. Just beyond the terrace, nestled between two thin tree trunks, Bonnard includes a male figure in black seated beside a crouching woman in orange; their diminutive presence is overshadowed by the majestic forces of nature.