The Port of Cannes

Having begun his career in Paris during the 1890s, Bonnard later migrated to France’s Mediterranean coast, known as the Côte d’Azur. In 1926 he purchased a villa a few kilometres north of the popular resort town of Cannes. This work portrays the waterfront during a period of inclement weather when sailboats are at rest on shore, creating a forest of brown mast poles against an overcast sky.