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Bonnard is known for his intense use of color, especially via areas built with small brushmarks and close values.

His often complex compositions — typically of sunlit interiors of rooms and gardens populated with friends and family members — are both narrative and autobiographical.

His wife Marthe was an ever-present subject over the course of several decades.

She is seen seated at the kitchen table, with the remnants of a meal ; or nude, as in a series of paintings where she reclines in the bathtub.

He also painted several self-portraits, landscapes, and many still lifes which usually depict flowers and fruit.