Derek Bonnard has been told his contract will not be renewed when it expires in September.
Like Matisse, Bonnard has been dismissively labelled a decorative artist, a painter of happiness.
In any case, Bonnard painted many fine landscapes after this, and a number of much-loved bathers.
Mr Bonnard faces seven allegations of misconduct following an investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
Bonnard was born in a suburb of Paris and, at the insistence of his father, studied law.
Mr Price and his deputy Derek Bonnard were arrested a year ago, but deny allegations of wrongdoing.
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Chief Constable Sean Price and his deputy Derek Bonnard were arrested a year ago, and later suspended.
Bonnard never painted from life, only from memory, which explains why his painting feels at once concrete and abstract.
Mr Bonnard is due to appear at a misconduct hearing on 4 March.
But even without some of his greatest pictures, Bonnard's singular vision shines through.
Operation Sacristy, a separate criminal investigation into allegations against Mr Price, Mr Bonnard and others is also under way.
Cleveland Police has appointed a new deputy chief constable to replace Derek Bonnard, who was sacked in March for gross misconduct.
Mr Bonnard, who was suspended when he was arrested in 2011 as part of corruption inquiry Operation Sacristy, has denied any wrongdoing.
Also in the show, paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec, Cassatt, Gauguin, Bonnard, Matisse, and Picasso demonstrate the spells that Degas cast on younger artists.
There was nothing of the romantic artist in a garret about Bonnard.
For this reason, Bonnard has been compared with another French artist obsessed with memory and the passage of time: the writer Marcel Proust.
If Mr Bonnard is cleared at the misconduct hearing he would serve as deputy chief constable until the end of his contract, she added.
And while not every interior makes a case for Bonnard as one of the great modernists, the ones that do so do that and more.
Five candidates were interviewed for the position vacated by Mr Bonnard.
The consignment, which includes works by Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, Paul Gauguin, Pierre Bonnard and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, is led by a painting by Claude Monet.
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Indeed, the cubists did not take kindly to Bonnard's retrograde aesthetic.
Sean Price, who was sacked in October, and Derek Bonnard started an action against three forces and the director of the National Crime Agency last May.
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Bonnard began the painting around 1921, but abandoned it when Monchaty committed suicide because of Bonnard's marriage to Marthe, who had also been one of his models.
Mr Price and his deputy Derek Bonnard were arrested in August 2011 as part of Operation Sacristy, a criminal investigation into allegations of corruption at the force.
''She took the time to read the legal codes and legislative text, which most ministers would just not do, '' recalls Christophe Bonnard, one of her senior policy aides.
The first thing you notice upon entering "The Late Interiors" is Bonnard's incandescent use of color--as inventive and rich as that of his friend and colleague Henri Matisse.
LVMH-backed retrospective of Pierre Bonnard's work will open in Paris.
It is doubtful that the concentration on less-well-known pictures (many of them seldom-seen loans from private collections) will convince people that Bonnard is, as Ms Amory claims, a modernist.
Wolfgang Mozart didn't just write pretty incidental music for the court, Jane Austen didn't just write love stories and Bonnard didn't just paint pretty flowers, bowls of fruit and tabletops.
The force originally detained Mr Price and Mr Bonnard, who have been suspended from duty, on suspicion of misconduct in a public office, fraud by abuse of position and corrupt practice.
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