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...declining months 80-year-old Pierre Bonnard gave Thursdays and Saturdays to the future. On those days a green-eyed, curly-haired little boy came running up the road to Bonnard's villa, just outside of Cannes, for a talk about painting. Solemn little Edouard Capra, who is now only ten, always brought along a dilapidated schoolbag full of paints and brushes, and-wrapped in newspapers under his arm,-a new painting to show the master...
...Bonnard was France's last strong link with the great 19th Century French impressionists. Now he had a prodigy to warm his heart. "Edouard," Bonnard predicted, "will be the French painter of tomorrow-providing he stays away from design schools and academies...
...Bonnard would permit no one, not even himself, to criticize Edouard's work. Instead he rambled on about the colors that flood the eyes, and how to approximate their pure sparkle in paint. "Paint what you want," he told Edouard, "as you want to paint it. Treasure your freshness, your inspiration. The rest will come by itself...
...home broken crates to make frames for Edouard's pictures. He also did all he could to keep his son from getting a big head. "Edouard must not be spoiled, either by the love of money or by the influence of others," he carefully explained. "That is what Bonnard told us. We can give our son all he needs...
Died. Pierre Bonnard, 80, great 20th Century impressionist painter, one of France's "Big Four" of modern art (with Picasso, Matisse, Rouault); on the Riviera, near Cannes...