Pour aujourd’hui et pour l’avenir: Absher, Bonnard, Fell

Following its debut in the Marais, LBF Contemporary brings Pour Aujourd’hui et pour l’Avenir to London. The exhibition features twelve new paintings by Caroline Absher and Annice Fell, made in direct response to a rare early oil sketch by Bonnard, and hung in dialogue with it. The sketch - once owned by Édouard Vuillard - is for his 1892 portrait of his sister Andrée, Le Corsage à carreaux, now in the Musée d’Orsay. The two artists take up Bonnard’s saturated palette, his figures absorbed into their surroundings, and his densely worked surfaces - working, as he did, with colour as a way to find form.