Pierre Bonnard French, 1867-1947

Pierre Bonnard never met Paul Cezanne, but his admiration for the older artist is demonstrated by his inclusion in Maurice Denis's 1900 painting Homage to Cézanne. The Nabis' interest in Cezanne, whom Denis had visited in Aix-en-Provence, lay as much in his radical and pioneering approach to being an artist, as much as any visual similarity that their work bore to his. Of all this group, whose connection was only loosely maintained after the 1890s, it was arguably Bonnard whose solitary later life and continual experimentation brought him closest to...