08 Paintings, Streets of Paris, Pierre Bonnard’s Place Clichy, with footnotes, Part #83

Pierre Bonnard, (1867, France – 1947, France)
La Place Clichy, c. 1912

Oil on canvas
138 x 203 cm
Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’archéologie de Besançon, Besançon, France

Bonnard’s La Place Clichy depicts a busy Parisian square near Montmartre in the 18th arrondissement, which was a popular artists’ quarter in the early twentieth century. Bonnard and his fellow artist Édouard Vuillard, who lived nearby, took joy in observing and painting the crowded streets around Place Clichy and the bohemian lifestyle of its inhabitants…

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