A Plate of Strawberries — Pierre Bonnard Art Postcard

Sunlight keeps everything pale and airy in this Bonnard still life: a shallow blue-rimmed dish heaped with strawberries sits at the centre of a pale lilac-white tablecloth, a piece of bread or baguette resting just in front, a blue cup or bowl at lower right and an orange fruit glowing at the upper corner. Bonnard signs the lower corner and lets the whole table sit in a high-key, sun-washed light, closer to a summer breakfast than a formal arrangement. Set beside a heavier, checked-cloth still life elsewhere in this collection, this one stays light and luminous, fruit and bread rather than a laid table. Fresh and appetite-warm, it dresses a kitchen wall well or travels nicely as a postcrossing card from the Pierre Bonnard collection.