Scène de Famille

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Scène de Famille

Artist Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867-1947)

Date1893

Dimensions12 1/4 x 7 in. (31.1 x 17.8 cm)

MediumLithograph in color

ClassificationPrints

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1978.13

Not on View

Label TextPierre Bonnard was a painter, printmaker, and photographer who experimented widely with his art, producing designs for screens, furniture, and stage scenery. He is known particularly for the decorative qualities of his paintings—often domestic scenes—and his unconventional use of color. His prints often show an asymmetrical arrangement of figures against a flat-colored and patterned background, an influence from Japanese woodblock prints. Distortions, often comic in nature, enliven his decorative scenes (see too his illustrations for the music book Petit solfège illustré in this gallery).Published Referencescf. Roger-Marx, Claude, Bonnard Lithographie, Monte Carlo, 1952, p.22, no. 4. cf. Ives, Colta Feller, The Great Wave: The Influence of Japanese Woodcuts on French Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1974, pp. 58-9, repr.Exhibition HistoryDetroit Institute of Arts, Night Thoughts and Day Dreams; Symbolism and Art Nouveau, 1880-1910, 1982. (not in catalogue) TMA The Painter Was a Printmaker: June 23 - Sept. 9, 1984 TMA Recent Acquisitions, Prints, Photographs and Drawings : April 1979 Mar. - Apr.,1979