Quattro donne breton gauguin biography

On view through Sunday, September 15, Paul Gauguin: The Art of Invention features a display that showcases the artist’s fascination with experimentation.

Paul Gauguin‘s second stay in Brittany in 1888 yielded paintings such as Landscape from Pont-Aven and Landscape from Brittany with Breton Women, which show his increasingly abstract painting style.

However, his most inventive period came during a brief but intense 10-week span in Brittany in 1888 working alongside the artist Émile Bernard, a precocious young painter 20 years Gauguin’s junior. While working together in the village of Pont-Aven, they became close friends and collaborators, exchanging ideas about aesthetic principles that dramatically shaped their own works and the direction of Modern art leading into the 20th century.

In 1887, while Gauguin was breaking away from Impressionism and exploring bright colors and ornamental patterns, Bernard was experimenting with a new style that emphasized suggestive colo