- Pont-Aven School
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Background
Pont-Aven is a commune of theFinistère "département", inBrittany ,France , some distance from inland from where theRiver Aven meets theAtlantic Ocean . From the 1850s painters began to frequent 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 1886. When he returned in 1888, the situation had changed: Pont-Aven was already crowded, and Gauguin looked for an alternative place to work which he found, in 1889, inLe Pouldu (today part of the community ofClohars-Carnoët ), some miles off to the East at the mouth of the riverLaïta , traditionally the border of theMorbihan departement. There Gauguin, accompanied byMeijer de Haan ,Filiger , and for a while bySérusier , spent the winter of 1889/1890 and several months afterwards.Artists working in Pont-Aven (or Le Pouldu)
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Paul Gauguin 1886, 1888, 1889-1890 and 1894
*Emile Bernard 1888 and 1891-1893
*Charles Laval 1888
*Emile Schuffenecker
*Meijer de Haan
*Władysław Ślewiński
*Paul Sérusier 1888, 1889 (and 1889, 1890)
*Armand Séguin
*Charles Filiger
*Jan Verkade
*Mogens Ballin
*Henry Moret
*Ernest Ponthier de Chamaillard
*Gustave Loiseau
*Emile Jourdan
*Jens Ferdinand Willumsen
*Roderic O'Conor
*Maurice Denis
*Robert Polhill Bevan 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893 and 1894
*Franck C. Penfold circa 1880Resources
Notes
References
* Cariou, André: "Les Peintres de Pont-Aven", Éditions Ouest-France, Rennes 1994 ISBN 2-7373-1499-2
* Jaworska, Wladyslawa: "Gauguin et l'Ecole de Pont-Aven", Ides et Calendes, Neuchâtel 1971 (no ISBN); English edition: "Gauguin and the Pont-Aven School", Thames and Hudson, London 1972 ISBN 0-500-23169-9; American edition: New York Graphic Society, Greenwich Connecticut 1972 ISBN 0-8212-0438-6
*Bevan, Robert. "Robert Bevan 1865-1925. A memoir by his son", Studio Vista, London 1965.
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