Bonnard and the Nabis by Albert Kostenevitch

Author:Albert Kostenevitch [Kostenevitch, Albert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Art, Individual Artists, Monographs, Techniques, Painting, Subjects & Themes, Human Figure, General, History, Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
ISBN: 9781783107384
Google: 5W-lCgAAQBAJ
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Publisher: Parkstone International
Published: 2015-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

He did in fact make one attempt to “get into” Bonnard. In 1899, he bought Bonnard’s painting Fiacre at the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, but later he returned it. Today it is in the National Gallery in Washington. Shchukin used to say that a picture needed to be in his possession for some time before he made his final decision about it, and art dealers accepted his terms. The man who really appreciated the Nabis and who collected their pictures over a considerable period of time was Ivan Morozov. His taste for their work must have been cultivated by his elder brother Mikhail, one of the first outside France to appreciate their painting. Mikhail Morozov owned Behind the Fence, the first work by Bonnard to find its way to Russia. He also had in his collection Denis’s Mother and Child and The Encounter. When in 1903 Mikhail Morozov’s untimely death put an end to his activities as a collector, his younger brother took up collecting with redoubled energy, adding to his collection judiciously. Seeing in Bonnard and Denis the leading figures of the Nabi group, the best exponents of its artistic aims, he concentrated on their work. As a result, Bonnard and Denis were as well represented in his collection as the Impressionists, Cézanne and Gauguin.

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