Pierre Bonnard

But it doesn't stop there.

The research also includes legendary painters like Mary Cassatt, Pierre Bonnard, Berthe Morisot, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and, uh, Edvard Munch.

Oh, and photographers like David Hamilton and Deborah Tourville.

Yes, a really wide net.

Simple, simple charm.

I feel like in the 19th century, Bonnard, um, Bonnard, Bouillard, um, uh, uh, Renoir.

Dega, Mane, all these guys.

I just feel like they just knew that you could make a simple, beautiful picture and that was not a big deal.

It's, and it has not been lent to an exhibition since 1990, so it's a very big deal.

In there, there's 250 works, 10 Van Gogh, 78 Gauguin, 88 Redon, some Degas, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir, Morisot, Signac, Bonnard, Matisse.

And then there's some of his own creation, because he was a painter, as I said.

He has some of, 325 of his paintings will be there, including of the, the Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe that hasn't been in France since 1937.

Yeah, it was really, it was beautiful.

Pont-Avant in France is very closely associated with a group of painters called the Nabi, which included Gauguin, Bonnard.

I'm missing some right now, but there's others.

Were you in any way surrounded by their art when you were there?