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"tombstone": "Caf\u00e9 Terrace, 1898. Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867\u20131947). Oil on board; 33.8 x 44.5 cm (13 5/16 x 17 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Anonymous Gift, 1976.148. \u00a9 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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"title": "Caf\u00e9 Terrace",
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"inscription": "Signed bottom left in blue paint: Bonnard 1898\r\n",
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"title": "Year in Review, 1976",
"description": "Year in Review, 1976. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 1-March 6, 1977).",
"opening_date": "1977-02-01T05:00:00"
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"id": 182153,
"title": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008).",
"opening_date": "2006-05-27T00:00:00"
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"title": "Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889\u20131900",
"description": "Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889\u20131900. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (July 1-September 19, 2021); Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (co-organizer) (October 23, 2021-January 23, 2022).",
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"description": "London, Lefevre Galleries. Pierre Bonnard (1935), no. 4, Terrasse de caf\u00e9.",
"opening_date": "1935-01-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "New York, Museum of Modern Art; cma. Pierre Bonnard (1948), not in catalogue but, according to labels, exhibited in both venues.",
"opening_date": "1948-01-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "CMA (organizer). Cleveland Museum of Art, Oct. 21, 2007- January 13, 2008: \"Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art\"",
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"description": "Bernheim-Jeune, Paris. Alex Reid & Lefevre Ltd., London. Sold in 1935 to Frank Hadley Ginn, Gates Mills, Ohio. Alexander Ginn, Gates Mills, Ohio. Given to the CMA in 1976.",
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"description": "This view of a man and two children at a sidewalk caf\u00e9 evokes mood and ambiance rather than describing a particular place or time. Such small city scenes humanized Paris and its anonymous inhabitants, suggesting intimate moments in their private lives.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 226",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n246"
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"citation": "Henning, Edward B. \u201cPierre Bonnard: La Terrasse de Caf\u00e9.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 65, no. 2 (February 1978): 58\u201365.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 58-65, fig. 1",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159565"
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"citation": "Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 44-45, Vol. I, no. 16",
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"citation": "Brown, Heather Lemonedes. \u201cThe Nabi City.\u201d In Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900. Mary Weaver Chapin and Heather Lemonedes Brown, 222-261. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: P. 233; Reproduced: P. 261, no. 180",
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"biography": "Pierre Bonnard was a law student when he began his artistic training in 1887 at the Acad\u00e9mie Julian in Paris, where he met Paul S\u00e9rusier (1864-1927) and the theorist and painter Maurice Denis (1870-1943). Both would be influential in his artistic career and become Bonnard's lifelong friends. In 1889, the year he obtained his law degree, he saw the exhibition at Caf\u00e9 Volpini (see Gauguin, Woman in the Waves, no. 100) and was particularly impressed with Gauguin's work. S\u00e9rusier, after having returned from studying with Gauguin in Pont-Aven, decided to form his own artistic group called the Nabis (Hebrew: prophets). The founding members of the Nabis included Denis, who wrote the manifesto for the group, \"D\u00e9finition du n\u00e9o-traditionnisme\" (published in May 1890 in Art et critique), Bonnard, Paul Ranson (1864-1909), and Henri-Gabriel Ibels (1867-1936). Their first exhibition occurred in 1891, and they were later joined by Ker-Xavier Roussel (1867-1944) and Vuillard (q.v.). Based loosely on the synthetist goals established by Gauguin and \u00c9mile Bernard, the movement was created from S\u00e9rusier's vision of an artistic brotherhood dedicated to symbolism whereby a universal language could be expressed through symbols. The Nabis were opposed to the naturalism taught at academies by artists such as Bouguereau (q.v.) and wanted to move away from didactic and moral paintings toward a more decorative style characterized by simplified drawing, flat patches of color, and heavy set contours. Bonnard's works of the 1890s were influenced by the innovations of Gauguin as well as Japanese prints, which were easily accessible in nineteenth-century Paris. His paintings took on a decorative quality, mirroring his artistic expressions in other media such as stained glass, furniture, pottery, and painted screens. Bonnard's and Vuillard's domestic interior paintings of the 1890s were often described using the term intimisme. In 1891 Bonnard also experimented with other media, including poster designs and lithographs, which inspired his friend Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), whom he had met through La revue blanche, a magazine that published the Nabis' work. Around 1900 the members of the Nabis began to drift apart. Between 1905 and 1910 Bonnard and Vuillard traveled to England, Belgium, Holland, Spain, and Italy, visiting many museums. Bonnard's art began to gravitate toward impressionism, but his colors were more expressive and his compositions more overtly structured; elements of the painted interiors such as doors, windows or pieces of furniture often provided a strong compositional framework. He also worked extensively with photographs. His late works were acclaimed by fellow Parisians like Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and Paul Signac (1863-1935). After 1920 Bonnard exhibited extensively and became an internationally renowned artist, receiving much recognition in the United States, where he traveled in 1926.",
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