Description: Bonnard's greatest works explore his claustrophobic relationship with his wife; in his seventies he also completed some of the most poignant self-portraits in Western art. This book shows how his greatest works sometimes emerged from terrible circumstances. 169 illustrations. 50 in color.
Brief description: Timothy Hyman is a writer on art and a painter. He was elected a Royal Academician in 2011 and is an honorary research fellow at University College London. He has exhibited widely and his work is in many public collections, including the British Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Deutsche Bank Collection. He was lead curator of Tate Britain's major Stanley Spencer retrospective in 2001 and has written a pioneering monograph on Bhupen Khakhar. His articles have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement and the London Magazine, and he is the author of Bonnard and The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century.