Pierre Bonnard

Cleveland Museum of Art

Pierre Bonnard

Odilon Redon

Date
1902
Medium
lithograph
Culture
France, early 20th Century
Department
Prints
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

Later in life, Odilon Redon turned to portraiture, creating likenesses of both commissioned sitters and his close friends. This print represents a figure central to his artistic and social milieu: Pierre Bonnard was a younger artist who admired Redon’s emphasis on interior states. Redon depicted only the head and profile of his subject, sketching Bonnard with fine and delicate detail. He produced just a small number of impressions of the lithograph, accentuating its personal and intimate theme. Pierre Bonnard once said of Redon: “All of our generation fell under his charm and received his advice.”

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