1890 Rents a studio in the rue Pigalle which he shares with Edouard Vuillard, Maurice Denis, and the actor Aurélien Lugné-Poe. September 25, Sister, Andrée, marries the composer Claude Terrasse at Le Grand-Lemps. 1891 March-April. Participates for the first time in the Salon des Indépendants where he shows nine works. At the end of March his prize-winning poster of 1889, France-Champagne, is distributed and attracts the attention of Toulouse-Lautrec. December, Participates in Peintres impressionistes et symbolistes, the first of fifteen exhibitions of that title organized over the next five years by Louis-Léon Le Barc de Boutteville. It is the first group showing of the Nabis. 1892 March-April. Shows seven paintings at the Salon des Indépendants, including The Croquet Game. Attracts the notice of several critics, one of whom describes him as "the most Japanese of all French painters." 1893 March-April. Shows four paintings at the Salon des Indépendants. Publication of an album of music by Claude Terrasse, Petites scènes familières, with twenty lithographs by Bonnard. Meets Maria Boursin (1869-1942) who calls herself Marthe de Méligny. She becomes his lifelong companion. Her likeness appears in around 384 paintings. ©1998 The Museum of Modern Art, New York