Pierre Bonnard: Affinities, 2018

Graham Nickson Edge Bathers , 1983–2005 Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 267 inches ( 304 . 8 x 678 . 2 cm.) Image courtesy of The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation Inc.

a late summer afternoon, reflected off the sea, turns everything into a kind of ritual or theater. His beach scenes are as still and harmoniously organized as Classical friezes, but assertively about the present day. Rachel Rickert observes women in private moments with no less acu- ity or sympathy than Bonnard did, in his celebrated images of Marthe bathing or drying herself, but the fact that Rickert is female and het-