Pierre Bonnard, "Landscape at Le Cannet," 1928, oil on canvas. Kimbell Art Museum. Acquired in 2018, in honor of Kay Fortson, President of the Kimbell Art Foundation, 1975-2017 © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Pierre Bonnard, "Landscape at Le Cannet," 1928, oil on canvas. Kimbell Art Museum. Acquired in 2018, in honor of Kay Fortson, President of the Kimbell Art Foundation, 1975-2017 © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

In “Bonnard’s Worlds,” the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, will present its first exhibition dedicated to the works of French painter Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947), inspired by its 2018 acquisition of the artist’s “Landscape at Le Cannet” (1928). The exhibition explores the sensory realms of experience that fueled the painter’s creative practice—from the most public spaces to the most private.

Pierre Bonnard, "Twilight (The Game of Croquet)," 1892, oil on canvas. Paris, Musée d'Orsay © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Pierre Bonnard, “Twilight (The Game of Croquet),” 1892, oil on canvas. Paris, Musée d’Orsay © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Comprising a careful selection of approximately seventy of Bonnard’s finest works created over the course of his career, “Bonnard’s Worlds” reunites some of the artist’s most celebrated paintings from museums in Europe and the United States, as well as many unfamiliar to the public from worldwide private collections.

Governed neither by chronology nor geography, but by measures of intimacy, the exhibition will transport visitors from the larger realms in which Bonnard lived—the landscapes of Paris, Normandy, or the South of France—to the most private interior spaces of his dwellings and of his thoughts.

Pierre Bonnard, "Dining Room in the Country," 1913, oil on canvas. Lent by the Minneapolis Institute of Art, The John R. Van Derlip Fund © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Pierre Bonnard, “Dining Room in the Country,” 1913, oil on canvas. Lent by the Minneapolis Institute of Art, The John R. Van Derlip Fund © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

“Bonnard’s Worlds” is organized by the Kimbell Art Museum and The Phillips Collection. It is supported in part by Frost, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

Pierre Bonnard, "Woman and Dog," 1922, oil on canvas. The Phillips Collection © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Pierre Bonnard, “Woman and Dog,” 1922, oil on canvas. The Phillips Collection © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

The exhibition is on view through January 28, 2024.

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