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Pierre Bonnard
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About this work
Later in life, Odilon Redon turned to portraiture, creating likenesses of both commissioned sitters and his close friends. This print represents a figure central to his artistic and social milieu: Pierre Bonnard was a younger artist who admired Redon’s emphasis on interior states. Redon depicted only the head and profile of his subject, sketching Bonnard with fine and delicate detail. He produced just a small number of impressions of the lithograph, accentuating its personal and intimate theme.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit linePierre Bonnard, 1902. Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916), printed by Blanchard. Lithograph; image: 14.5 x 12.3 cm (5 11/16 x 4 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1955.508
