When Pierre Bonnard died, in 1947, a large commemorative exhibition of his paintings was put on in Paris. They are typically colorful and treat easily recognizable themes- domestic interiors often, with people gathered around a table, or naked girl washing and grooming herself, also still life’s and landscapes- and they had their public. They were neither Surrealist nor abstract, nor representational in an academic, pre- Impressionist sense. For over twenty years Bonnard had been living in the South of France. His paintings seemed charged with the luster of the Riviera. People called them “sumptuous charming', 'joyous'. For lack of a more recent movement to be associated with, Bonnard called himself 'the last of the Impressionists'.