Summary
Bonnard was aged about seventy when he painted this scene of boats in a bay. He used a formerly complex compositional structure built up with intersecting lines. The resulting image creates a sense of the particularity of this view of two moored yachts and the panorama beyond them, and the abstract effects suggested in the scene by form, colour and light.
The composition is divided vertically by the mast of the white yacht in the foreground, which is placed off-centre to the left and extends to the upper border of the canvas. In the background, the distant shore, composed of strips of blue, yellow and green, splits the scene in half horizontally. Further horizontal lines are created in the foreground by the orange and lilac deck of the white yacht, its furled sail above, and its white bowsprit that extends to the right almost the length of the canvas. The bowsprit cuts across the hull of the second yacht, the yellow boat of the work’s title, which dominates the composition’s lower right zone… (read more)
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