The Small Window by Pierre Bonnard — Art Postcard

The Small Window frames almost nothing but garden: a narrow casement opens onto a shimmer of yellow-and-green blossom, a small red-roofed house just visible in the middle distance among blue-grey trees and a pale, hazy sky. Unlike Bonnard's more crowded interiors, there is no table, no figure, no clutter here, only the pale window frame at the edges and, beyond it, a Le Cannet garden caught at its most flickering and alive. The brushwork stays loose throughout, colour breaking into small strokes that seem to tremble in the heat. It reads like a private view, a window a painter might keep returning to rather than a scene arranged for anyone else. A dreamy, garden-bright card from the Pierre Bonnard collection, a gentle pick for anyone who loves Provence or a sun-warmed garden.