💎 The dreaded writing deadline! Furiously scribbling away, #PierreBonnard’s young writer is today's #HiddenGem in Room 6 at the Barnes💎 - A specialist in intimate interiors, #Bonnard invites us to take a seat by placing the table at the canvas’s uttermost edge. The wide expanse of red cuts across the surface, recalling the bold compositions of Japanese woodblock prints (#ukiyo-e) that Bonnard collected. - The pieces of paper form a rhythmic pattern that highlights his fondness for decorative painting while the harmony between light and the materiality of paint showcases his mastery of form. Painted after several trips to the #Netherlands, this domestic scene may have also been inspired by 17th-century #Dutch pictures of letter writing. - Two decades earlier, in 1888, Bonnard and his art school classmates Édouard #Vuillard and Maurice Denis founded the #Nabis movement. Led by Paul #Sérusier, this artistic brotherhood embraced the expressive colors, linear patterns, and simplified forms of Paul #Gauguin’s symbolist aesthetic. . . . . . 🎨 #PierreBonnard. Young Woman Writing (Jeune femme écrivant),1908. Oil on paper or paperboard lined to canvas. BF346