exhibition

Gauguin in Quimper

June 16 - September 30, 2018

1st Floor, Room 21 - L'Ecole de Pont-Aven

Echoing the exhibition of the Breton departmental Museum which presents many works of Czech artists inspired by Brittany in the 19th and 20th centuries, the Museum of Fine Arts presents an exceptional loan from the National Gallery of Prague, Bonjour Monsieur Gauguin, work executed in 1889 by Paul Gauguin, following his visit to the Montpellier Museum with Vincent Van Gogh. They probably exchanged on the subject of the wandering artist and about the self-portrait after their discovery of the painting Bonjour Monsieur Courbet. Gauguin's masterly painting representing the artist as a pilgrim meeting a Pouldu peasant woman is a more intense version of a first oil of more modest dimensions, which originally decorated the panel of a door of the inn of Marie Henry, a decoration whose museum preserves three other sections, including Gauguin's famous Oie. The joint presentation of these works is totally new.

 

Marie Henry House in Le Pouldu and loans from the Brest museum

"Bonjour Monsieur Gauguin"

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