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Pierre Bonnard
Garden at Le Cannet, c. 1943oil on canvas66.5 x 55.5 cm (canvas)
26 1/8 x 21 7/8 inThis landscape represents the lush vegetation near Le Bosquet, Pierre Bonnard’s country house at Le Cannet near the Côte d’Azur. He had purchased the villa in 1926 and it and...This landscape represents the lush vegetation near Le Bosquet, Pierre Bonnard’s country house at
Le Cannet near the Côte d’Azur. He had purchased the villa in 1926 and it and the surrounding
properties, countryside and the Alpilles in the distance were a constant source of inspiration for him
until his death in 1947. He had become enthralled by the intense light and the saturated light of the
Midi since his stay in Saint-Tropez, the home of his fellow Post-Impressionist, Paul Signac, in the
summer of 1909.
There are more than two hundred Le Cannet landscapes in Bonnard’s complete body of paintings,
most of which were executed during the last decades of his life.
A somewhat larger and slightly earlier view of the same section of Bonnard’s Garden at Le Cannet,
executed in autumnal colours is in the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (inv. no. AMVP
1539; Dauberville 1556).Provenance
Estate of the artist, until 1963; by descent to his heirs, until 1971; acquired by Private collection
Publications
A. Vaillant, Bonnard ou le Bonheur de voir, Neuchâtel, 1965, p. 226, no. 145. Illustrated p. 145
(color)
R. Cogniat, Bonnard, Paris, 1968, illustrated p. 49 (color)
J. and H. Dauberville, Bonnard: catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, IV (1940-1947 et
supplement, 1887-1939), Paris, 1974, no. 1624. Illustrated p. 57 M. Terrasse, Bonnard et Le Cannet,
Paris, 1987, p. 123
