13/01/17
Bonnard: En toute intimité
Musée Bonnard, Le Cannet, France
26 November 2016 – 23 April 2017
With the title Bonnard: En toute
intimité, one might well expect an exhibition focusing on the artist’s nudes,
or more erotic elements of his work, but, just as Tracey Emin’s tent, Everyone
I Have Every Slept With 1963-1995, includes those
with whom she simply enjoyed (or otherwise) the intimacy of a shared bed – or
womb – so this beautifully curated show at the Musée Bonnard, in the artist’s
ultimate hometown of Le Cannet, on the Côte d’Azur, looks at those people,
places and things to which the artist was especially close at different points
throughout his life. Arranged largely chronologically, it comprises about 60 works from the museum’s
collection, alongside a handful of loans, and a number of new acquisitions from
the Musée d’Orsay.
