It’s time to reappraise the output of Pierre Bonnard, thanks to this show culled largely from private collections. Alongside recurring bath scenes, window views and self-portraits, lively Paris scenes and charming oils of children from his early Nabis period already show his distinctive use of colour. Relatively muted early tones give way to brighter colours and an increasingly abstract chromatic approach, as in the lovely late view from Le Cannet, where the scene becomes a shimmering patchwork of hot colours.
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