Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) saw Japanese prints as an essential model for his commitment to modernity. These images, from a faraway land, taught him new aesthetic principles that revolutionised his artistic practice. The French painter shared with the great masters of Japanese prints a sensitivity to people, nature and animals, as well as a similar interest in the depiction of everyday life combined with a certain fantasy.
Through a selection of prints by great Japanese masters as well as paintings, drawings, posters, engravings and photographs by Pierre Bonnard, Bonnard and Japan illustrates the connections between the art of the Land of the Rising Sun and the work of one of France's greatest painters.
