Working in his villa in the south of France, Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) suffused his late canvases with radiant Mediterranean light and dazzling colour. Although his subjects were close at hand - usually everyday domestic scenes - Bonnard rarely painted from life. Instead, he made pencil sketches in[...]
Paul Cezanne's (1839--1906) portraits of Hortense Fiquet (1850--1922), his wife and the subject of some of his most iconic portraits, rank among the most powerful of their kind in French modernism. Yet, posterity has not been kind to Madame Cezanne. She was called a distraction, blamed for her husba[...]