Philadelphia - PMoA: Homage to Maillol, and Bather with Chignon

            Homage to Maillol
1917
Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867–1947)

Bather with Chignon
1900
Aristide Maillol (French, 1861–1944)

Although at first glance a casual scene in Pierre Bonnard's home and studio, this canvas has as its centerpiece a bronze sculpture by Aristide Maillol, Bonnard's friend and neighbor on the French Riviera.

Maillol's Bather with Chignong--a version of which is on view nearby--has found a new home near a vase of flowers, a blue-patterned screen, and handwritten papers on a polished wooden chest.  The tall, slender format of the canvas echoes the proportions of the sculpture, and it is surely ironic that the only man figure depicted in this scene is an inanimate, lifeless one.

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The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMoA), originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, opened in a into its permanent home on Fairmount, a hill located at the northwestern end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, in 1928.  The main building's Greek Revival design was the product of collaboration of the architectural firms of Horace Trumbauer and Zantzinger, Borie and Medary, but mostly credited to two architects in Trumbauer's firm--Howell Lewis Shay for the building's plan and massing, and Julian Abele, the first African American to graduate from University of Pennsylvania's Department of Architecture, for the detail work and perspective drawings.  The museum houses more than 240,000 objects including major holdings of European, American and Asian origin, spread across more than 200 galleries spanning 2,000 years.  

In 2007, the Philadelphia Museum of Art was ranked #24 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
   

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Taken on: December 30, 2022

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