1899
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Street Corner is a 1899 by Pierre Bonnard, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
Bonnard shows a Paris street corner with women walking, a vendor with a cart, and leafy trees in the background. The scene feels alive but quiet, like a snapshot of daily life. Bonnard often worked from his studio window, watching people pass by without them noticing him. He used bright colors in flat patches, not smooth blends. That style stands out in his prints. It’s not realistic shading—it’s more like colorful shapes side by side. Check out 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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