BIOGRAPHY
Pierre Bonnard was a French painter born in 1867 in Fontenay-aux-Roses and died in 1947 in Le Cannet.
Man of the 19th and 20th centuries, the personality of Bonnard was shaped between the end of Impressionism, the Nabi movement -of which he was one of the main figures- to then free himself from any artistic movement and any convention, developing a deeply personal image. His sensitive gaze on the world then predominates in which an enchanted, vibrant and luminous nature opposes reality. Beneath an appearance of quiet simplicity, Bonnard's work reveals itself to be complex, full of nuances and as if detached from time.
This rhythmic vision between Paris, Normandy and the South, will stimulate and nourish the greats, such as Matisse, Balthus or the young generation of post-war French and American abstraction, represented in particular by Bazaine, Sam Francis or Rothko.
A museum dedicated to him has been located in Le Cannet since 2011, and it continues to expand its collection through purchases, donations, and loans from both private and public sources.
EXHIBITIONS
2026
- The gallery celebrates its 40th anniversary. Carte blanche to Pierre Wat, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris, France
- Le Syndrome de Bonnard Or The Impermanence of Artworks, Frac Île-de-France, Le Plateau, Paris & Les Réserves, Romainville, France
2025
- Pierre Bonnard. Bonnard at le Cannet, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, France
2024
- Bonnard et la poésie d'un objet ordinaire, Musée Bonnard, Le Cannet, Côte d'Azur, France
- Bonnard et le Japon, Caumont - Centre d'Art, Aix-en-Provence, France
- Bonnard-Matisse, a friendship, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
2022
- Bonnard. Les couleurs de la lumière, Musée de Grenoble, France
2019
- Pierre Bonnard. The Colour of Memory, Tate Modern, Londres, Royaume-Uni
2018
- Pierre Bonnard, The Never-Ending Summer, Centre national des Arts de Tokyo, Japon
2016
- Pierre Bonnard: Painting Arcadia, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Etats-Unis
- Bonnard/Vuillard. The Zeïneb and Jean-Pierre Marcie-Rivière donation, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
2015
- Pierre Bonnard, Fondation Mapfre, Madrid, Espagne
- Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947). Painting Arcadia, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
2012
- Snapshot. Painters and photography, Bonnard to Vuillard, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas ; The Phillips Collection, Washington, Etats-Unis ; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Etats-Unis
2006
- La volupté du trait, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris, France
- Bonnard. L'œuvre d'art, un arrêt du temps, Musée d'Art moderne de Paris, France
2002
- L'œil du chasseur, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris, France
1998
- Bonnard, MoMA, New York, Etats-Unis
1989
- Pierre Bonnard, the Graphic Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Etats-Unis
1984
- Bonnard, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
- Bonnard, Kunsthaus Zürich, Suisse
1970
- Pierre Bonnard - Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnunger und Druckgraphik, Kunstverein, Hambourg, Allemagne
1967
- Pierre Bonnard : Centenary of his birth, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France
1964
- Bonnard and His Environment, MoMA, New York, Etats-Unis
1955
- Bonnard, Vuillard and the Nabis 1888-1903, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris, France
1949
- Prints by Gauguin, Vuillard, and Bonnard, MoMA, New York, Etats-Unis
1948
- Pierre Bonnard, MoMA, New York, Etats-Unis
1947
- Bonnard, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France
1946
- Le noir est une couleur, Galerie Maeght, Paris, France
- Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, France
1943
- Galerie Romanin, Nice, France
1938
- Paintings and Prints by Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard, Art Institute of Chicago, Etats-Unis
1926
- Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, France
1914
- Le Paysage du Midi, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, France
1907
- Salon de la Libre Esthétique, Bruxelles, Belgique
1906
- Solo exhibition, Galerie Vollard, Paris, France
- Solo exhibition, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, France
1900
- Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, France
- Salons des Indépendants, Paris, France
1896
- First solo exhibition, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, France
- Les peintres-graveurs, Galerie Vollard, Paris, France
- Peintres impressionnistes et symbolistes (dernière exposition), Le Barc de Bouteville, Paris, France
1895
- Salon de l'Art Nouveau, Galerie Siegfried Bing, Paris France
1893
- Peintres impressionnistes et symbolistes (5e exposition), Le Barc de Bouteville, Paris, France
1892
- Peintres impressionnistes et symbolistes (1ère et 2e expositions), Le Barc de Bouteville, Paris, France