Montmartre in de regen
Currently on view
Pierre Bonnard (1867 - 1947), Paris, 1897
oil on paper on panel, 69.9 cm x 95 cm
Credits:
When he painted this townscape, Bonnard took on a double challenge: the light was failing and it was raining. He was looking out of the window of his Montmartre studio at a view he depicted in a number of works.
His decision to place an expanse of blank wall at the centre of the composition is daring. It gives the least picturesque part of the painting the most emphasis. But there is more to it: look at the perspective. Bonnard has used the difference in distance to the middle roofs and the street in an illogical way. He borrowed ideas for this kind of division of the picture plane and irregular perspective from Japanese prints.
- Object number
- s0515S2008
- Dimensions
- 69.9 cm x 95 cm, 86.5 cm x 111.5 cm, 8 cm
- artist
- Pierre Bonnard
Van Gogh Museum, Ongekend. Verhalen rond 10 jaar aanwinsten
Van Gogh Museum, Prints in Paris 1900. Van elitair tot populair
Fondation Beyeler, Pierre Bonnard
Denver Art Museum, Pierre Bonnard : early and late
The Phillips Collection, Pierre Bonnard : early and late, no. 37
Denver Art Museum, Pierre Bonnard : early and late, no. 37
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Hôtel de Ville de Paris, Paris sous le ciel de peinture, no. onbekend
Albert Loeb & Krugier Gallery, Les Nabis, no. 29b
Museum Boymans, Bonnard, no. 8
Roland, Browse and Delbanco, Bonnard, no. 11
Kunsthaus Zürich, Pierre Bonnard 1867-1947, no. 6
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Jansen, Leo, Montmartre in de regen, p. 26-29
Van Gogh Museum : jaarverslag 2008, Amsterdam, 2009, p. 19, 21-22, 79
Thomson, Richard, Cate, Phillip Dennis, Chapin, Mary Weaver, Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre, Washington, 2005, p. 66, 73
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Bell, Clive, Exhibition of paintings by Pierre Bonnard & Edouard Vuillard, Edinburgh, 1948, p. 9, 26
