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The UndeciderBonnard's changing place in modern art.

By Christopher BenfeyPosted Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009, at 6:53 AM ET

Click here to read a slide-show essay about the mysterious late work of Bonnard.Click here to read a slide-show essay about the mysterious late work of Bonnard.

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Christopher Benfey is Mellon professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His latest book, A Summer of Hummingbirds, about writers and artists in Gilded Age America, has just been published by the Penguin Press.
Photograph of Pierre Bonnard art on Slate's home page © 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.
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