Tailleurs de pierre (recto/verso)

Le peintre danois découvre la Bretagne au cours de l'été 1890. Il y retrouve son ami Meyer de Haan et rencontre Gauguin. Bien que ce dernier l'influence considérablement sur un plan technique (préparation des couleurs, apprêtage des toiles), Willumsen conserve un style propre caractérisé par une vivacité naïve issue de l'art scandinave qui s'adapte particulièrement à l'esthétique "pontavénienne."

The Dane painter Jean-Ferdinand Willumsen first discovered Brittany during the summer of 1890, where he joined his friend Meyer de Haan and first met Gauguin. Although the latter had a significant influence on him as far as technique was concerned - preparation of the colours, finishing of the canvases - Willumsen's own personal style, which he adapted very well to the Pont-Aven esthetic, recognizable by its naive and vivid touch typical of the Scandinavian art, is always in evidence.