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Art: 6. A Dazzling Sight.(Brief article)

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| February 01, 2009 | Camhi, Leslie; Steiker, Valerie | COPYRIGHT 2009 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: editor: Valerie Steiker LESLIE CAMHI

My god is light," the painter Pierre Bonnard remarked, but the accoutrements of daily lifeteacups, nasturtiumswere also objects of his devotion. In the paintings he created during his last decades, while living as a near recluse with Marthe de MA[c]lignyhis lifelong model, muse, and eventual wifehe transformed the simply furnished rooms of their house at Le Cannet, a hillside town in the South of France, into a Proustian lost paradise. At the Metropolitan Museum this month, "Pierre Bonnard: The Late Interiors" includes his luminous ...

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