Bretonne au Pouldu

Details

Paul Sérusier (1863-1927)
Bretonne au Pouldu
signed 'P. Sér.' (lower right)
gouache on card
19 3/8 x 12¾in. (49.2 x 32.3cm)
Executed in 1890

Provenance

Marguerite Sérusier.
The artist's estate, Chateauneuf du Faou.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1986.

Exhibited

Gifu (Japan), The Museum of Fine Arts, Le tournant de la peinture, Feb.-March 1993, no. 110 (illustrated p. 72).

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Lot Essay

Bretonne au Pouldu elegantly exemplifies Sérusier's researches on Japonisme and Cloisonnisme, which he fervently pursued in the early 1890s. It was executed in 1890, during the artist's stay at the Auberge des Grands Sables at Le Pouldu (a small hamlet twenty-six miles from Pont-Aven, in Brittany), with Paul Gauguin. Immediately after his 1889 failure in conjunction with the International Exhibition in Paris, where his Exposition impressionniste et synthétiste was scorned by the critics, Gauguin took up residence in Le Pouldu, joined by Sérusier in the summers of 1889 and 1890.
Iconographically and compositionally, the present work is closely related to Sérusier's major oil of 1890, La laveuse au Pouldu.

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