1917, Pierre Bonnard, Homage to Maillol (detail) -- Philadelphia Museum of Art
From the Phillips exhibition label: Red and pink anemones in a blue and white vase stand on a small cabinet placed beside a column or post in Bonnard's Paris apartment. Also standing on the cabinet is a bronze cast of Standing Bather, modeled around 1900 by Bonnard's friend Aristide Maillol. The composition emphasizes verticality: the statue and its cabinet-base, the pillar, the blue screen in the distance-all are narrow and tall, like the painting itself.
1917, Pierre Bonnard, Homage to Maillol (detail) -- Philadelphia Museum of Art
From the Phillips exhibition label: Red and pink anemones in a blue and white vase stand on a small cabinet placed beside a column or post in Bonnard's Paris apartment. Also standing on the cabinet is a bronze cast of Standing Bather, modeled around 1900 by Bonnard's friend Aristide Maillol. The composition emphasizes verticality: the statue and its cabinet-base, the pillar, the blue screen in the distance-all are narrow and tall, like the painting itself.