Editing Pierre Bonnard (section)

==Final years and death (1939–1947)==
In 1938, Bonnard and Vuillard's works were featured at an exposition at the [[Art Institute of Chicago]]. The outbreak of [[World War II]] in September 1939 forced Bonnard to depart Paris for the south of France, where he remained until the end of the war. Under the German occupation, he refused to paint an official portrait of French collaborationist leader [[Marechal Petain]], but accepted a commission to paint a religious painting of [[Saint Francis de Sales]], with the face of his friend [[Vuillard]], who had died two years earlier.<ref>Cogenal (2015), pp. 136–137)</ref>

In 1947 he finished his last painting, ''The Almond Tree in Blossom'', a week before his death in his cottage on La Route de Serra Capeou near [[Le Cannet]], on the [[French Riviera]]. The [[Museum of Modern Art]] in New York City organized a posthumous retrospective of Bonnard's work in 1948, although originally it was meant to be a celebration of the artist's 80th birthday.

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File:Pierre Bonnard, c.1940-1946, Nude in Bathtub, oil on canvas, 122.56 × 150.50 cm, Carnegie Museum of Art.jpg|''Nude in the Bath and Small Dog'', (c. 1941–1946) [[Carnegie Museum of Art]]
Bemberg Fondation Toulouse - Dernier autoportrait de Pierre Bonnard de 1945 - 56x46.jpg|Last self-portrait (1945) [[Hôtel d'Assézat|Bemberg Fondation]]
File:PierreBonnard-1946-Stairs with Mimosa.png|Stairs with Mimosa (1946)
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