Bonnard’s Worlds
Bonnard’s Worlds, the first major retrospective of Pierre Bonnard’s work at The Phillips Collection in 20 years, explores the sensory spheres of experience that fueled the French artist’s creative practice. Bonnard’s immediate surroundings were the lifeblood of his work, and this exhibition is guided by those personal spaces that found expression in his art through his recording of remembered sensations. Governed neither by chronology nor geography, but by measures of intimacy, the exhibition transports the visitor from the larger realms in which Bonnard lived—the landscapes of Paris, Normandy, and the South of France—to the most intimate interior spaces of his dwellings and his thoughts. Bonnard’s Worlds reunites some of Bonnard’s most celebrated works from museums across Europe and the United States, as well as many less-exhibited works drawn from private collections worldwide.
Bonnard Salon
Adjacent to the exhibition, the Bonnard Salon (Phillips House, Floor 2U) presents materials from the Phillips’s Library and Archives that showcase the museum’s special relationship with the artist over several decades.
IMAGE: Pierre Bonnard, Dining Room on the Garden, 1935, Oil on canvas, 50 x 53 1/4 in., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, By gift © 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
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Bonnard Salon
The Bonnard Salon is an intimate space that echoes the rooms depicted in Bonnard’s Worlds and showcases Pierre Bonnard’s special relationship with The Phillips Collection and his supporters Duncan and Marjorie Phillips. As a guest, you are invited to develop your own relationship with Bonnard by attending programs on Fridays and by spending time with materials from The Phillips Collection Library and Archives.
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The Bonnard Salon is located in the Phillips House, Floor 2U.
The Phillips House East Parlor with Pierre Bonnard’s Woman with Dog on view, 1931
Bonnard Salon Programs
Fridays, from 12-1 pm. Space is limited, reservation required.
May 24: Dupont Nature Walk
Location: Meet at The Phillips Collection main entrance
Farm Director of the THEARC Building Bridges Across the River Carrie Vaughn
May 31: Wildflower Floral Arrangements
Location: Art Workshop, LL2
Massalley Design founder Karen Massalley
Read Duncan Phillips’s correspondence and records of business transactions to uncover private details of his acquisitions of Bonnard’s work.
Look closely at historic photographs and exhibition ephemera to journey through nearly a century of Bonnard paintings on view at the Phillips’s family home.
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Exhibition Catalogue
Through the lens of more than 70 works, scholarly essays transport the reader into Bonnard’s world and shed new light on the artist’s unique life circumstances. George T. M. Shackelford is deputy director of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth. Elsa Smithgall is chief curator of The Phillips Collection. Isabelle Cahn is general curator of paintings (now retired) at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Cyrille Sciama is director general of the Musée des impressionnismes Giverny. Véronique Serrano is chief curator of the Musée Bonnard, Le Cannet.
Limited exhibition catalogues are currently available in the Museum Shop.
Exhibition Support
This exhibition is co-organized by The Phillips Collection and the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX.
Made possible by major support from The Exhibitions Endowment Fund, Roger Sant and Doris Matsui, and a lead contribution from The Richard C. von Hess Foundation
Presented with generous support from the Ednah Root Foundation, The Marion F. Goldin Charitable Fund, and Dina and George Perry
Support for this exhibition is provided by The Kristina and Will Catto Foundation, Anne and Gus Edwards, Martha R. Johnston and Robert Coonrod, Paul Killian and Carole Goodson, The Robert Lehman Foundation, Ken and Dorothy Woodcock, and Alan and Irene Wurtzel.
Additional support is provided by Robert Berish and Barbara Brown, Robert and Debra Drumheller, Barbara and Bob Hall, Dan Hamilton, Susan Larimer, and Susan Lee and Stephen A. Saltzburg.
This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.