Place le soir (The Square at Evening), from the series Quelques aspects de la vie de Paris (Some Aspects of Parisian Life)
Pierre Bonnard, Place le soir (The Square at Evening), from the series Quelques aspects de la vie de Paris (Some Aspects of Parisian Life), 1899, color lithograph on paper, Museum Purchase: Funds provided by members of the Collections Committee in memory of Roger Meier, © artist or other rights holder, 2007.75
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- Title
Place le soir (The Square at Evening), from the series Quelques aspects de la vie de Paris (Some Aspects of Parisian Life)
- Related Titles
original language: Place le soir
series (original language): Quelques aspects de la vie de Paris
series (translated): Some Aspects of Parisian Life
translated: The Square at Evening
- Artist
- Related People
publisher: Ambroise Vollard (French, 1866-1939)
- Date
1899
- Medium
color lithograph on paper
- Edition
edition of 100
- State
final state; three of three
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 10 1/2 in x 15 1/4 in; sheet: 16 in x 20 7/8 in
- Collection Area
Graphic Arts
- Category
Prints
- Object Type
planographic print
- Culture
French
- Credit Line
Museum Purchase: Funds provided by members of the Collections Committee in memory of Roger Meier
- Accession Number
2007.75
- Copyright
© artist or other rights holder
- Terms
Place le soir (The Square at Evening) is from Pierre Bonnard's most important series of prints, Quelques aspects de la vie de Paris (Some Aspects of Parisian Life), published by Ambroise Vollard in 1899. These images suggest moments captured from the urban milieu. In his night scenes Bonnard explored the effect of electric light on street life. Light emanating from large shop windows extends interiors out of doors and illuminates the passersby. The artist catches fashionably dressed people scurrying by as carriages rumble along. His very brushstrokes suggest the essence of movement. The cropping of forms, a practice derived from Japanese art, as in the fragmentary figure of the woman in the lower left foreground with her lost profile, enhances the immediacy of the scene and turns us into participants.
- Exhibitions
2008 Celebrating Prints: Recent Acquisitions Portland Art Museum