Pont aven bretagne gauguin biography

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The Artist's Portfolio, Pont Aven

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Title:The Artist's Portfolio, Pont Aven

Artist:Paul Gauguin (French, Paris – Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands)

Date

Medium:Two inside covers decorated in watercolor and gouache over charcoal with graphite on heavy gray wove (blotting) paper sewn to leather; leather binding inscribed in pen and ink with additions in watercolor; multicolored silk ribbons stitched into binding.

Dimensions:each drawing: /4 x /8 in. ( x cm)

Classification:Drawings

Credit Line:Promised Gift of Leon D. and Debra R. Black, and Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer and Florence B. Selden Bequests, and Benefit Fund,

Object Number

Signature: "Seguin / Roderic O'Conor / PGO"; left inner cover is signed at lower left in brush and wash: "PGO "

Inscription: The front leather cover is inscribed in pen and ink, as follows: Sur / CHAMP D'ART / E.F.R. [Eric Forbes-Robertson] / le 25 juin , Nous artistes peintres orgueilleu/sement de haute race dans le grand livre mystérieux / de la nature né Paul Gauguin dit PGO né / Eric Forbs Robertson dit le Celte né Roderic / O'Conor, né Seguin le Jovial avons décidé / Dé ce jour ce livre en / terrain neutre de sympatie (sic) et d'art litt

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Pont-Aven School

Art movement

Pont-Aven School (French: École de Pont-Aven; Breton: Skol Pont Aven) encompasses works of art influenced by the Breton town of Pont-Aven and its surroundings. Originally the term applied to works created in the artists' colony at Pont-Aven, which started to emerge in the s and lasted until the beginning of the 20th century. Many of the artists were inspired by the works of Paul Gauguin, who spent extended periods in the area in the late s and early s. Their work is frequently characterised by the bold use of pure colour and their Symbolist choice of subject matter.

Background

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Pont-Aven is a commune of the Finistèredépartement, in Brittany, France, some distance inland from where the river Aven meets the Atlantic Ocean. From the s painters began to frequent the village of Pont-Aven, wanting to spend their summers away from the city, on a low budget in a picturesque place not yet spoilt by tourism. Gauguin first worked in Pont-Aven in ^[1] When he returned in , the situation had changed: Pont-Aven was already crowded, and Gauguin looked for an alternative place to work which he found, in , in Le Pouldu (today part of the community of Clohars-Carnoët), some miles off to the East at the mouth of the river Laïta, trad