Artwork Details
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Dimensions
18-1/8 x 21-5/8 in. (canvas) 26-1/2 x 30 x 3 in. (framed, glazed)
Mark Description
Signed, lower left in reddish paint: P.S.
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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
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Collection
European Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945
Color Palette
Provenance
Paul Sérusier [1863-1927], Paris and Châteauneuf du Faou; By inheritance to his widow, Marguerite Sérusier [1879-1950]; To her friend Paule Henriette Boutaric, Paris;[1] Purchased by Sam Josefowitz, Lausanne; [2] Partial purchase/partial gift to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1998. [1]Paule Henriette Boutaric collaborated on the publication by Marcel Guicheteau, Paul Sérusier, Paris, 1976. [2]Josefowitz inventory cards, Curatorial File (1998.181), IMA at Newfields: “Bt. from Mlle. Henriette Boutaric, Paris, 1963 (in exchange for Bernard 'Little Girl.')"
Gallery Labels
Parisian painter Paul Sérusier first visited Brittany in 1888. Encouraged by Gauguin to abandon his traditional approach to painting, he adopted the Pont-Aven School's more independent handling of color and form and their keen interest in surface pattern.
This approach prevails in his view of the coastal region near Le Pouldu. The two reddish-brown mounds are stacks of seaweed, raked from the beach for use as fertilizer. Bending by the stone wall, the flat figure of the lone laborer adds gentle curves to the colorful bands of Sérusier's rolling landscape.
Exhibition History
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Paul Gauguin, Artista di Mito e Sogno
Complesso del Vittoriano
October 5, 2007 - February 3, 2008
L'aventure de Pont-Aven et Gauguin
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper
July 12, 2003 - September 30, 2003
L'aventure de Pont-Aven et Gauguin
Musée du Luxembourg
April 2, 2003 - June 22, 2003
Indianapolis Museum of Art
March 28, 1999 - August 1, 1999
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
Paul Sérusier et la Bretagne,
Musée de Pont-Aven
June 30, 1991 - September 30, 1991
Sérusier et la groupe de Pont-Aven
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper
1958 - 1958
Paul Sérusier
Galerie Durand-Ruel
1953 - 1953
Carroère et le Symbolisme
Musée de l'Orangerie
1950 - 1950
Gauguin et l'Ecole de Pont-Aven
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper
1950 - 1950
Paul Sérusier
Musée Galliéra
1947 - 1947
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
Gauguin et l'Ecole de Pont-Aven
Musée de Pont-Aven
June 28, 1997 - Date Unknown
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