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"Bonnard's landscapes and homely rooms are often populated with quiet figures, usually women. Their faces are always expressive, inscribed within the composition like the enigmatic faces of hieratic figures in medieval frescoes. Sometimes these pensive gazes call to mind the sidelong glances in Giotto's profiles. The artist's own emotions are revealed in them - they have a certain air of melancholy, even bereavement, and a solemn consciousness of the passage of time. They express a sense of ever-growing disquiet, an urgent compulsion to create while time remains.
Some of these portraits reveal an underlying psychological truth: the painter could not conceal the depression that seized Marthe during this period and made human company distressing to her. Indeed, their frequent long trips to the seaside or the mountains were her best means of relief."
Antoine Terrasse
"Bonnard. The Colour of Daily Life."
Some of these portraits reveal an underlying psychological truth: the painter could not conceal the depression that seized Marthe during this period and made human company distressing to her. Indeed, their frequent long trips to the seaside or the mountains were her best means of relief."
Antoine Terrasse
"Bonnard. The Colour of Daily Life."