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Pierre Bonnard, Nu accroupi au tub, 1918, oil on canvas, 85.3 x 74.5 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Gift of Zeïneb and Jean-Pierre Marcie- Rivière, 2016.

Pierre Bonnard: Designed by India Mahdavi


7 Oct 2023
⬤ National Gallery of Victoria | NGV International 9 Jun - 8 Oct 2023

He examined the room as you do a doctor’s waiting-room … It was the purest distillation of the commonplace. He had become bewitched by its strangeness.
—Wyndham Lewis, Tarr, 1918.

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Artists: Pierre Bonnard, India Mahdavi, Édouard Vuillard, Alfred Jarry, Pablo Picasso, Félix Vallotton

Tara Heffernan is an Australian art historian and critic.

This review was made possible thanks to the generous support of Meridian Sculpture.

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