1910, Pierre Bonnard, Faience from Normandy (The Pot from Rouen) -- Phillips Collection (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the exhibition label: At the center of the composition, atop a journal on the littered table, Bonnard has placed a small faience (tin-glazed earthenware) pitcher brimming with fleurs des champs--flowers of the field. Gathered in a neighboring meadow or in one of the wilder parts of the garden, by Marthe or by the painter himself, the flowers have been barely arranged, if at all; simple and fresh, they bring the outside world indoors. On the back wall, Bonnard has tacked one of his earliest views of the side of Ma Roulotte, with characteristic white, unpainted margins.
1910, Pierre Bonnard, Faience from Normandy (The Pot from Rouen) -- Phillips Collection (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the exhibition label: At the center of the composition, atop a journal on the littered table, Bonnard has placed a small faience (tin-glazed earthenware) pitcher brimming with fleurs des champs--flowers of the field. Gathered in a neighboring meadow or in one of the wilder parts of the garden, by Marthe or by the painter himself, the flowers have been barely arranged, if at all; simple and fresh, they bring the outside world indoors. On the back wall, Bonnard has tacked one of his earliest views of the side of Ma Roulotte, with characteristic white, unpainted margins.