Artwork Details
Artist
Creation Date
Materials
Object Types
Dimensions
33 x 45-11/16 in. (sheet/canvas) 42-3/4 x 55-1/4 x3 in. (framed/optium)
Mark Description
Signed and Dated in lower left: Emile | BERNARD 1892
Accession Number
Credit Line
Samuel Josefowitz Collection of the School of Pont-Aven, through the generosity of Lilly Endowment Inc., the Josefowitz Family, Mr. and Mrs. James M. Cornelius, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard J. Betley, Lori and Dan Efroymson, and other Friends of the Museum
Copyright
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945
Color Palette
Provenance
Possibly Comte Antoine de La Rochefoucauld [1862-1959], Paris, patron and friend to Bernard's circle.{1} To Clément Altarriba, son-in-law of the artist, Paris, by 1949;{2} sold via (Wildenstein, Paris) to Nina Sussman, New York;{3} purchased from her in 1959 by Samuel Josefowitz;{4} acquired as a partial gift, partial purchase by the IMA in 1998 (1998.172). {1} La Rochefoucauld was acquainted with Bernard by 1892 as a fellow exhibitor and financial backer of the first Salon de la Rose + Croix, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris. He may have acquired this painting out of the 1893 exhibition of Brittany paintings at Pére Tanguy's. {2} See the exhibition catalogue, Eugène Carrière et le Symbolisme, Orangerie des Tuileries, December 1949-January 1950, catalogue no. 214 where he is listed as the owner. {3} A note on the bill of sale indicates that the painting was acquired by Sussman through an agent for Wildenstein on consignment from Altarriba. {4} See Josefowitz inventory card, copy in IMA Provenance file (1998.172).
Gallery Labels
Working together in a remote village in western France during late summer 1888, Paul Gauguin and the inventive young painter Emile Bernard developed the bold new style now identified with the School of Pont-Aven.
Liberated from standard rules of color, scale and perspective, Bernard chose vivid hues and dynamic patterns based on his imagination rather than strict observation of nature.
The women's head coverings, or coiffes, are part of the traditional Pont-Aven dress that the visiting artists found so picturesque.
Exhibition History
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Indianapolis Museum of Art
March 28, 1999 - August 1, 1999
Gauguin et: Ecole de Pont-Aven
Musée de Pont-Aven
June 28, 1997 - September 29, 1997
Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven
Museum Würth
March 2, 1997 - June 1, 1997
Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven
Art Gallery of New South Wales
May 13, 1994 - July 24, 1994
Emile Bernard, 1868-1941: A Pioneer of Modern Art/Ein Wegbereiter der Moderne
Städtische Kunsthalle
May 12, 1990 - August 5, 1990
Le Japonisme
Musée d Art Occidental
September 23, 1988 - December 11, 1988
Le Japonisme
Réunion des Musées Nationaux Grand Palais
May 17, 1988 - August 15, 1988
Post-Impressionism: Cross Currents in European and American Painting, 1880-1906
National Gallery of Art
May 25, 1980 - September 1, 1980
Carroère et le Symbolisme
Musée de l'Orangerie
1950 - 1950
Gauguin and the Pont-Aven Group (Pont-Aven: Gauguin und sein Kreis in der Bretagne)
Kunsthaus Zürich
Dates Unknown
Gauguin and the Pont-Aven Group
Tate Britain
Dates Unknown
Post-Impressionism: Cross Currents in European and American Painting, 1880-1906
The Royal Academy of Arts London
Dates Unknown
Père Tanguy
Unknown
Dates Unknown
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