La forêt de pins — Pierre Bonnard Art Postcard

Pierre Bonnard climbs above the coast for La forêt de pins, looking down through a screen of pines toward a hazy bay and a distant town. The greens thin and thicken with the light, and the sky beyond the trees glows the soft gold of a Midi afternoon. Bonnard signed the canvas quietly in the lower corner, a modest mark on an otherwise wide, airy view. It is a view built from distance rather than detail, the kind of quiet elevation Bonnard returned to again and again around Le Cannet. As a postcard from the Pierre Bonnard collection, it suits a collector's frame, a postcrossing envelope, or a note to someone who loves the light of southern France.