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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.
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.')"
