In 1955 he returned to figurative painting and became one of the most prominent participants in the movement, which is commonly called "figuration San Francisco Bay, in his work intentionally prosaic, expressed, in particular, the typical American subjects, combined with the search net zhiyvopisnosti, which he discovered in abstraction.
Since 1956, he became virtually the only Californian artist, who regularly organized exhibitions in New York.
From 1956 to 1967. in his work poyavlyayuts traces of his acquaintance with French painting (from Manet to Matisse), with whom he met in the Phillips Collection. In 1964-65 he settled Europe and, in particular, the USSR, where he went to examine the work of Matisse, stored in Soviet museums.
Look at the job, which is called the Window = Window (which I like very much), directly Bonnard made in US, eh?