Janie and I had a super day at the Tate Modern, primarily for the members’ preview of the Pierre Bonnard exhibition.
It runs until 6 May 2019, so you have plenty of time to get to see this exhibition if you are looking at this article reasonably fresh. And in our opinion it really is well worth seeing. Comprehensive coverage of the work of this wonderful artist from the first half of the 20th century.
Here is the Tate Modern resource on this exhibition.
They let you take pictures at the Tate Modern these days and Janie most certainly went for it:
The painter of happiness, he was known as. We weren’t quite so sure about Pierre Bonnard’s personal life, which seemed to get complicated (to say the least) at times and resulted in the suicide of one of his mistresses – not so much happiness there – it might have been a better deal to be his dog:
But if you ignored artists of his generation because of doubts regarding their personal lives, you wouldn’t see much 19th or even 20th century art.
Here is a lovely little video about the exhibition:
If that video doesn’t make you want to see the exhibition…it’s not an exhibition for you!
We spent longer in that exhibition than normal, because it was so good, so we decided to get some refreshment next. The main members cafe was heaving with people (I suppose it was a preview day), so we went into the new extension to try the cafe in there – which hadn’t even opened when we went for the members early look at that building.
We were surprised to find that this new cafe is named Granville-Grossman Members Room, after Renee Granville-Grossman, a major benefactor to the Tate. She and her late husband were clients of Janie’s for many years. There we ate some lunch in far quieter surroundings than the heaving main members cafe.
After that, we returned to the main building to take a quick look at the Anni Albers exhibition which closes in a few days time.
Here is a link to the Anni Albers resource on the Tate Modern site.
Janie got her camera out again – although this one was not so interesting to us there were some eye-catching exhibits nonetheless.
In summary, a thoroughly interesting and enjoyable day at the Tate Modern, especially, for us, the Pierre Bonnard.
Just in case you want to see all 18 photos, below is a link to the Flickr album that has them all:
