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Bonnard’s Worlds, a retrospective currently on view at the Kimbell Art Museum and traveling to the Phillips Collection in 2024, is aptly named. Spanning almost five decades and comprised of 70 paintings, the show opens with bustling Parisian street scenes and panoramic Riviera landscapes. Instead of progressing chronologically, Nabi canvases are hung beside works from later in the artist’s career, and it’s all of one piece, as it turns out. In this brilliant installation, we discover, gallery by gallery, all sorts of nooks and crannies gleaned from the everyday life of artist Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947). ....
It’s an admonition we must respect when dealing with this terrific show because the wall and the work hanging on it have a consubstantial relationship. The paintings will eventually hang on other walls, but it is the wall as an infinite, inhuman plane Novros demands we take into account to understand them. Portable murals, as Novros calls them, wall paintings meant to be seen against that blank, meaningless void on which they confer structure, human order. So not sculpture, but perhaps architecture. ....