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...Pierre Bonnard's drawing was fuzzy and weak; the composition of his paintings was haphazard. He borrowed ideas at will from other painters, and frequently flubbed them. When he launched into a picture he just hoped for the best and was never quite sure how it would turn out. (Painting, he suggested, was rather like making hats.) Bonnard had neither Picasso's drive nor Matisse's decisiveness; yet his work rivaled theirs...
...last of the French impressionists, Bonnard spent his days putting on canvas the cool and fiery colors that flooded through his eyeglasses. Last year, at 79, he died (TIME, Feb. 3, 1947), leaving in his Riviera villa, and in museums all over the world, the glowing fruits of a lifetime's happy labor. Last week a huge Bonnard retrospective exhibit at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was offering conclusive proof of the sunlit warmth and size of his achievement...
...Bonnard's distinctive quality was a clear eye for color. His paintings not only seduce the eye, they also enrich its vision: they give one a fresh look at a nature that swims and sparkles with half-forgotten hues...
...month ago, when Bonnard died (TIME, Feb. 3), little Edouard walked among the old men and women in mourning, and saw the master's coffin covered with earth. Edouard knew that Bonnard loved color more than anything in the world, and he had bought a bunch of carnations to go with the somber wreaths. Tucked into the vivid crimson of Edouard's carnations was a white card. A mon cher Maitre, said the hesitant scrawl, avec mon regret eternel...
...Edouard came back from the funeral dry-eyed. "Get into your pose," he told his mother. "We mustn't forget Maitre Bonnard told me to work always, and there's still a bit of light...