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Ludion: Paris Musees, 2006. Book. Illus. by Pierre Bonnard. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. 358pp. 100 full color reproductions. Green cloth, blindstamped. like new. Unclipped pictorial wraparound jacket has a 1/2" chip on the upper left corner of the front panel, and crease on the front flap.in mylar sleeve. Among those painters who incontestably left their mark on twentieth-century art, Bonnard rises to the top again and again. Museums, scholars and viewers regularly return to his oeuvre for reinterpretation, passionate and contradictory, of what it means to be Modern. In having followed a very personal calling--literally and figuratively interior, particularly compared to the work of friends like Matisse--Bonnard created work as innovative as any of his contemporaries. His recurring themes--the nude (both classical and erotic), the landscape, domestic life, and the self-portrait--evolve with him from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, from Paris to the south of France, alive with…
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