{"product_id":"9780434012435-secondhand-forever-nude","title":"Forever Nude","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eNB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition.  See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only.  A description of our secondhand books is not always available.  Please contact  us if you have a question about this title.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Guy Goffette\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFormat: Hardback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNumber of Pages: 144\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStepping from the pavement onto the Boulevard Hausmann on that December morning in 1893, she is Marie, a farmer s daughter from the Midi. Rescued from the commotion of horses and carriages, she is escorted to the far side of the avenue by a diffident young artist named Pierre Bonnard. When at last they speak, she introduces herself as Marthe de Meligny, aristocratic daughter of Italian parents. It was as Marthe that she would, for fifty years, be Bonnard s lover and his muse. There are no nudes in Bonnard s work before Marthe. Afterwards, her body, perched naked above a mirror of water, at her toilette, or in the languor after lovemaking would dominate his work. It would be almost forty years before, on the eve of their marriage, Bonnard discovered that Marthe was Marie. In impressionistic, jewel-like sketches, poet and novelist Guy Goffette conjures the artist and his model; visits the gardens, houses and landscapes that Bonnard so gloriously depicted in teh radiant colours, teh sensual shapes and forms of his genius. orever Nude is an homage, a love letter, an impassioned record of the artist who wanted only to appear to the young artist of the year 2000 on the wings of a b","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44270840709339,"sku":"9780434012435-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/products\/9780434012435-us-300.jpg?v=1695085902","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780434012435-secondhand-forever-nude","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}