PMI: Waiting For The Print Story -- January 24, 2024

Locator: 46632ECON.

PMI: definition.

Waiting for the print story / reported earlier today -- think about this for a minute.

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Books And Arts Page

New books, for this week:

• Bonnard's World, George T. M. Shackelford and Elsa Smithgall, 2023
• The Kimball Museum in collaboration with the Phillips Collection
  
• The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, Jack E. Davis, c. 2017.
• The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Monarchy, John Cannon & Ralph Griffiths, c. 1988.|
• The Rossettis, Tate, edited by Carol Jacobi and James Finch, c. 2023
• Collaboration between the Tate Britain London (April - September, 2023); and,
• Delaware Art Museum (October, 2023 - January, 2024)
  

Meanwhile, locally, and fnally, something other than the Impressionists.

Bonnard's World: Kimbell Art Museum, Ft Worth, TX, November, 2023 - January, 2024  - last week for this exhibition. From the web page:

In Bonnard’s Worlds, the Kimbell Art Museum presents 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).

As an artist, Bonnard found inspiration in the natural spaces, intimate interiors, and people that surrounded him in his homes and on his travels through Paris, Normandy, and the French Riviera. Through his paintings—glowing with intense colors and flooded with light—he invites us all into the most fascinating corners of these worlds.

The first major exhibition of Bonnard’s paintings in Texas in nearly forty years, Bonnard’s Worlds explores the sensory realms of experience that fueled the painter’s creative practice—from the most public spaces to the most private.

Reuniting seventy of Bonnard’s finest paintings, created over the course of his career, the exhibition includes some of the artist’s most celebrated works from museums in Europe and the United States as well as many that are unfamiliar to the public from private collections around the world.

Governed neither by chronology nor geography, but by measures of intimacy, the exhibition transports visitors from the larger realms in which Bonnard lived to the most private interior spaces of his dwellings and of his thoughts.

Pierre Bonnard:

Pierre Bonnard; 3 October 1867 – 23 January 1947) was a French painter, illustrator and printmaker, known especially for the stylized decorative qualities of his paintings and his bold use of color. A founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis, his early work was strongly influenced by the work of Paul Gauguin, as well as the prints of Hokusai and other Japanese artists. Bonnard was a leading figure in the transition from Impressionism to Modernism. He painted landscapes, urban scenes, portraits and intimate domestic scenes, where the backgrounds, colors and painting style usually took precedence over the subject.

Landscape at Le Cannet:

Provenance Henri Kapferer (1870-1958), Boulogne-Billancourt, France. Aimé Maeght (1906-1981), Cannes and Paris, by early 1950s; by descent to his son Adrien (b. 1930) and Paule Maeght, Cannes and Paris; acquired by (Richard L. Feigen, New York, 1997); Private collection, Chicago; Private collection; (New York, Sotheby’s, November 2, 2005, lot 39); Wildenstein & Co., New York; Purchased by Kimbell Art Foundation, 2018.

Aimé Maeght: As a youth, Maeght studied art and music, training as a lithographer at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Nîmes. His first commercial encounter in the art world came in 1930, when Pierre Bonnard came to his Cannes shop and had Maeght print a program for a Maurice Chevalier concert with a Bonnard lithograph. 

After the programs were produced, Maeght put the lithograph in the print-shop window. A quick sale encouraged the artist to give him a second picture. Maeght made his Paris debut as a major art dealer on the Rue de Teheran in 1945, after World War II. 

On sale were all the paintings done by Henri Matisse during the war. He also represented Alexander Calder, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, and Fernand Léger.

Much of his success as a dealer was attributed to his wife, Marguerite Maeght.