Landscape with Mountain

Painted in 1924 and held at the Phillips Collection, this work belongs to Bonnard's increasingly ambitious landscape practice of the 1920s, when he moved beyond the intimate domestic garden toward broader panoramic subjects. The mountain landscape — possibly from the Midi or the Dauphiné region of his family origins — offered a compositional challenge different from his table-and-garden compositions: a large, receding subject requiring spatial organisation across the full canvas. The Phillips Collection's exceptional group of Bonnard works places this landscape within a context of sustained institutional engagement with his achievement.

The mountain mass creates a strong geometric presence in the upper composition. The foreground landscape and middle distance are rendered in Bonnard's characteristic chromatic approach: greens, ochres, and blues creating spatial relationships through colour temperature rather than conventional tonal recession.