11. The French painter Pierre Bonnard thought nature was a snare and delusion. 12. The French painters Jacques Louis David and Ingres went to paint and see masterpieces. 13. They belonged to a trans-Atlantic tradition that included French painters like Matisse, Bonnard and Marquet, as well as Milton Avery and Edward Hopper. 14. What does Paul Cezanne, the French post-impressionist painter, have in common with leather holdalls and haute couture? 15. A tube-shaped bronze bell created by Paul Matisse, grandson of French painter Henri Matisse, will be unwrapped. 16. Five paintings and a sculpure by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, plus one painting by French painter Georges Braque, have been retrieved. 17. He was among the first French painters to take oils and easel outdoors, studying natural light and its effect on the landscape. 18. Police closed the Louvre and conducted body searches of visitors Sunday after a guard discovered the theft of a landscape by French painter Camille Corot. 19. The launch coincides with the opening of a major exhibition of the French painter Pierre Bonnard. 20. An exhibition of the works of French figurative painter Balthus opened here Friday in the museum of fine art. |
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