1894 Designs poster for La Revue blanche. 1895 November-December. The art dealer Ambroise Vollard commissions sets of lithographs from Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, and Roussel. 1896 January. Shows fifty-six works at the Galerie Durand-Ruel. It is his first one-man show and provokes a strong reaction from Camille Pissarro: "One more Symbolist who is a total failure." February, Exhibits at the Salon de la Libre Esthétique in Brussels. December 10, Alfred Jarry's play Ubu Roi is given its first performance in the Salle du Nouveau Théâtre. Bonnard collaborates with Sérusier, Toulouse-Lautrec, Vuillard, Ranson, and Jarry on the scenery and masks; the music is by Claude Terrasse. The Nabis show with Le Barc de Boutteville for the last time. His death deprives them of one of their most active supporters. 1897 April-May. Group show of the Nabis at Vollard's gallery. May-June, Bonnard illustrations for Marie, a novel by the Danish writer Peter Nansen, appear in four issues of La Revue blanche. They attract the attention of Renoir who sends Bonnard a letter care of Vollard saying: "I find your drawings in the revue blanche quite exquisite. They are really you; don't lose this art." The book was published the following year. ©1998 The Museum of Modern Art, New York