Bouquet by the Window — Pierre Bonnard Art Postcard

A tall purple iris commands this Bonnard bouquet, rising above yellow calla lilies, white daisy-like blooms and sprays of blue-violet flowers, all gathered into a white-and-blue vase on a pale table. Behind it, a cool blue-grey interior wall meets a warm yellow-brown curtain or panel, the two tones trading quiet tension across the canvas. Bonnard lets the leaves crowd in as much as the flowers, so the arrangement feels loose and just-cut rather than formally staged, a domestic pause, flowers set down by a window before the light changes. It works equally well framed near a reading chair or mailed to a flower-loving friend, one more gentle entry in the Pierre Bonnard collection.