Pierre Bonnard: easily misrepresented

Pierre Bonnard: Painting Arcadia is the catalogue that accompanied the major exhibition of the same name organised in 2015 by the Muse dOrsay, Paris, with the Fundaion Mapfre, Madrid, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. It is laid out in much the same way as the exhibition that is to say, thematically.
It begins with Bonnards Nabis years in the 1890s before tracing his career through subjects such as interiors, nudes and portraits. In his opening essay, Guy Cogeval, the president of the