1918, Pierre Bonnard, Southern Landscape with Two Children (detail) -- Phillips Collection (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the Phillips exhibition label: Bonnard may have begun this painting at Grasse, a hill town in the South of France. Exuberant foliage is suffused with turquoise, yellow, and orange, suggesting the intense light that made Bonnard feel, on his first encounters with the Mediterranean, "As if I were in the palace of A Thousand and One Nights," enchanted by "the sea, the yellow walls, reflections as colorful as the lights themselves."
1918, Pierre Bonnard, Southern Landscape with Two Children (detail) -- Phillips Collection (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the Phillips exhibition label: Bonnard may have begun this painting at Grasse, a hill town in the South of France. Exuberant foliage is suffused with turquoise, yellow, and orange, suggesting the intense light that made Bonnard feel, on his first encounters with the Mediterranean, "As if I were in the palace of A Thousand and One Nights," enchanted by "the sea, the yellow walls, reflections as colorful as the lights themselves."