Color and the power of Pont-Aven

International Herald Tribune | May 17, 2003| | Copyright

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In 1886, Paul Gauguin left Paris and settled for a while in the small Breton fishing port of Pont-Aven. His presence made the place famous but, as the fascinating exhibition at the Luxembourg Museum shows, he was neither the first nor the last artist to settle there.Pont- Aven had already been attracting painters, especially English and American, in the 1870s. The show opens with a selection of academic works on Breton themes, including a portrait of a Breton girl and her little brother by William Bouguereau that is a transposition of a Raphael Madonna and child in the ...

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