Bernard Dunstan obituary

Artist renowned for his luminous paintings of nudes, musicians and VeniceThe artist Bernard Dunstan, who has died aged 97, was an admirer of Pierre Bonnard’s dictum that: “The thing must start with a vision, with a moment of excitement. After that, you study the model.” His own luminous paintings, so evocative of the intimisme of Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard, combined an impression of spontaneity with a rigorous technique founded on direct observation and meticulous draw