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23rd April 2025

In contrast to the Tate Modern exhibition in 2019 which focussed heavily on his nudes in baths and elicited mixed reviews, the National Museum exhibition is cleverly curated to show Bonnard's immense range of subjects and processes. He emerges as an artist with a fine sense of humour and an enjoyment of family life. This lithograph is Family Scene (1893), a copy of which is in The Met: "Bonnard’s inclusion of his own profile at lower right, against the checkered pattern of his sister Andrée’s dress, demonstrates his delight in the close observation of his first nephew, Jean, born in May 1892". 

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