1944 January. Publication of Bonnard: Seize Peintures 1939-1943 by André Lhote. 1946 June-July. Shows thirty-six major works at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune. August, Brassaï visits Bonnard at Le Cannet, and photographs the studio. Agrees to a large retrospective in 1947 to be organised by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in celebration of his eightieth birthday. The retrospective takes place in Cleveland and New York between March and September 1948. 1947 January 23. Bonnard dies at Le Cannet. August. Publication of a special edition of Verve devoted to Bonnard, for which he had designed the cover and frontispiece and chosen the decorative designs and excerpts from his diaries. * See Nicholas Watkins, Letter to the editor, The Burlington Magazine, May 1988, p.327. ©1998 The Museum of Modern Art, New York