The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Venue Partner)
1000 Fifth Ave at 82nd St
212.535.7710
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Pierre Bonnard, The Terrace at Vernonnet (detail), Courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- When
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Jan 27, 2009 – Apr 19, 2009
Tuesdays–Thursdays (9:30am–5:30pm)
Fridays–Saturdays (9:30am–9pm)
Sundays (9:30am–5:30pm)
- Where
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Directions: Main Building: Take the 4, 5, or 6 train to 86th Street and walk to Fifth Avenue; OR take the M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus along Fifth Avenue. The Cloisters: Take the A train to 190th Street and walk, or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop.
- Price
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$20 suggested donation
- Links
Like many early 20th-century painters, Pierre Bonnard retreated to the hinterland for his twilight years. But rather than twiddling his artistic thumbs, it was during this spell in Le Cannet, France, that Bonnard summoned some of his loveliest compositions. Painted from pencil sketches and his imperfect recollection, his rustic still lifes and interiors (of furniture, friends, and his wife Marthe) are defined by punched-up colors and an intimate pas de deux between light and depth. Beginning today, the Met's Pierre Bonnard: The Late Interiors marks the first exhibition to honor and hone in on the artist's surprisingly fruitful coda.
