1899
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Street at Evening in the Rain is a 1899 by Pierre Bonnard, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a rainy Paris street at dusk. Figures hold umbrellas and shop windows glow. The scene is soft and blurry, like it’s seen through a wet window. Bonnard used color lithography here. He often drew from his studio window, watching daily life. The rain blurs details but keeps the mood calm and quiet, not dramatic. See how the colors mix like watercolors. Check out Pierre Bonnard’s other prints at The Cleveland Museum of Art.
This suite of color lithographs collected Pierre Bonnard’s observations of city life, ranging from animated street scenes to distant observations glimpsed from the artist’s Montmartre studio window. Rather than memorializing the famous monuments of Paris, Bonnard preferred to depict small neighborhood scenes populated by urbanites shopping and strolling and by vendors selling their wares. The setting for one of the prints is the second-largest public park in Paris, the Bois de Boulogne, which was a popular place for families to relax, stroll, and enjoy carriage rides around the lakes. Two…
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Pierre Bonnard was a French painter, illustrator and printmaker, known especially for the stylized decorative qualities of his paintings and his bold use of color.
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