Croquet or Twilight, 130×162 cm, 1892, Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947). Bonnard was another major figure of the Nabis, deeply influenced by Japanese ukiyo-e, becoming a colorist and the most adept at mastering color among the Fauves, earning the title "color magician." He excelled at revealing his keen, brilliant world through the most lyrical and substantial emotional colors.

"Croquet or Twilight" is a representative work from Bonnard's early Nabi period. In Nabi painting characteristics, it affirms a decorative value. Under a flattened, subjective, unreal appearance, it depicts a scene of family members playing croquet in a lush green backyard garden: in the foreground, a man and two women; looking closely at the woman in the middle with her dog, she holds the croquet mallet, head down, focused on playing. Here, figures, bushes, and flowers are pressed together into a single plane with no depth. Fortunately, on the right side of the painting, a group of people surround each other in a circle playing, forming a space that breaks through the suffocation of flatness and patterning, creating an imaginative space. Anecdotal, decorative, flattened, patterned, and close to Art Nouveau.