1930 (ca.), Pierre Bonnard, Fruit and Fruit Dishes -- Phillips Collection (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the exhibition label: The artist's close point of view means that the painting is almost entirely white--though Bonnard's whites contain myriad colors. Here, the careful arrangement of the blue-ringed bowls and plates with yellow, orange, and red fruits recalls the still lifes of Paul Cezanne, or of another of Bonnard's heroes, 18th-century painter Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin. The harmony of the objects on the tabletop is disrupted first by the slivers of orange, yellow, and pink beyond the table and then by the cropped heads of a genial cat and a dog, cautiously watching each other.
1930 (ca.), Pierre Bonnard, Fruit and Fruit Dishes -- Phillips Collection (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the exhibition label: The artist's close point of view means that the painting is almost entirely white--though Bonnard's whites contain myriad colors. Here, the careful arrangement of the blue-ringed bowls and plates with yellow, orange, and red fruits recalls the still lifes of Paul Cezanne, or of another of Bonnard's heroes, 18th-century painter Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin. The harmony of the objects on the tabletop is disrupted first by the slivers of orange, yellow, and pink beyond the table and then by the cropped heads of a genial cat and a dog, cautiously watching each other.