Formulated by the painter Roberto Mangú Quesada, "Bazaine, Balthus, Rothko... The Children of Bonnard" will talk about his artistic filiation; the heritage that Bonnard's painting constitutes and the personal and innovative use he makes of color, his dilation of the flat image and of depth.
A modernity that particularly attracted the French and American post-war schools.
Works by Rothko, Truphémus, Frydman, Balthus, Lesieur, Kimura, etc. and up to Jean-Pierre Blanche with fifteen paintings by Bonnard, those of the last decades when the painter approaches a quasi-abstract language without ever making the economy of reality.
The proximity will be played out in the themes addressed, in particular, the complex and melancholy interiors of the landscapes, the window as an element of dialogue with the colored decor, freed from the description of observing the daily life with a "vision proper to Bonnard".
On the occasion of the exhibition "Les Enfants de Bonnard : Balthus, Bazaine, Rothko", Helene Bailly Gallery will lend a work by Pierre Bonnard "Nu accroupi" (1899) to the Bonnard Museum in Le Cannet.