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6. Panoramic View of Cannet , c. 1930

Oil on canvas 19 x 21¼ in. ( 48 . 3 x 54 cm) Stamped signature lower left

literature: Jean and Henry Dauberville. Bonnard, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint . Paris: Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1992 . Vol. I, no. 1418 ; Serrano Veronique, Musee Bonnard (Le Cannet France). Bonnard: Le Cannet Une É vidence . Cinisello Balsamo Milano: Silvana editoriale; 2020 . excat. p. 101 . After making annual visits to Le Cannet for many years, Bonnard acquired a villa in 1926 which he named Le Bosquet, or “the grove” for the grove of trees that surrounded it. Local records relate that on 27 January 1926 , Bonnard paid 50 , 000 francs for “the property planted with orange trees, containing a two-story house and two reservoirs fed by the water of the Canal de la Sciagne, situated in the Avenue Victoria.” It was here that the artist whom Henri Matisse once described as “the greatest of us all” chose to pass the later years of his life and where he painted some of his most iconic works. Bonnard became devoted to painting the exterior and interior views, and was able to greatly expand his ongoing experimentation with color and light.