Suggest a change on the locationMusée Bonnard
16 Boulevard Sadi Carnot, 06110 Le Cannet, France
Alpes-Maritimes
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Only museum in the world dedicated to Bonnard. Pierre Bonnard stayed at Le Cannet from 1922 to 1947\. He rented three villas before acquiring, in 1926, Le Bosquet, a house on the heights of the city where he retired permanently from 1939 until his death in 1947\. The landscapes of Cannet and the light of the Midi are for him inexhaustible sources of inspiration. It is during this period, which lasts nearly 25 years, that he paints his most inspired paintings, those whose specialists agree to say that they are his most beautiful works. Bonnard will produce more than three hundred works at Le Cannet, some intimate, inspired by his private universe (the interior of his house, his garden), but also landscapes of the city and more generally of the Midi, where the subject is the pretext for an explosion of color and light and the development of a new pictorial space. The surrounding landscape acts in depth on Bonnard in the same way as the Sainte-Victoire for Cézanne or Giverny for Monet, as
Access
A8 motorway from Marseille/Lyon or Nice/Monaco/Italy motorway exit no. 42 Azur bus no. 1/ 4/ 11/13 stop Musée Bonnard/Mairie du Cannet Gare SNCF de Cannes (4 km) Aéroport de Nice (25 km)
©Frédéric Ferrero
