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    The Beach of Les Grands Sables at Le Pouldu by Paul Sérusier
    Paul Sérusier. The Beach of Les Grands Sables at Le Pouldu, 1890. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00001691

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    The Beach of Les Grands Sables at Le Pouldu

    by Paul Sérusier

    Inscriptions

    Signed lower left: P. Serusier

    Exhibition history

    Paris, Musée Galliera, Paul Sérusier, May 2–31, 1947, cat. 49. Pont-Aven, Musée de Pont-Aven, Paul Sérusier et la Bretagne, June 30–September 30, 1991, p. 28, cat. 4 (color ill.). Tokyo, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Gauguin et I'Ecole de Pont-Aven, April 10–May 30, 1993; traveled to Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, June 8–July 18, 1993; Hokkaido, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, July 25–August 29, 1993; Mie, Prefectural Art Museum, September 4–October 3, 1993; Koriyama, Koriyama City Museum of Art, October 9–November 28, 1993, p. 76, cat. 57 (color ill.). Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Gauguin and the Pont-Aven School, May 13–July 24, 1994, p. 179, cat. 109 (color ill.), 180. Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven, September 8–October 23, 1994; traveled to Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, November 20, 1994–January 15, 1995; Montreal, The Montreal Museum of Fine Art, February 9–mid-April 1995; Memphis, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, May 6–early July 1995; San Diego, San Diego Museum of Art, July 8–October 15, 1995; Portland, Portland Museum of Fine Arts, November 19, 1995–January 14, 1996; Boston, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, June 26–September 16, 1996; Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, October 15, 1996–January 14, 1997, p. 141, cat. 109 (color ill.).

    Publications

    Marcel Guicheteau, Paul Sérusier (Paris: Editions Side, 1976), p. 202, 203, no. 35 (ill.). “Les ventes prochaines,” La Gazette de L’Hôtel Drouot, April 24, 1981, p. 45 (ill.). “Les ventes futures,” La Gazette de L’Hôtel Drouot, May 1, 1981, p. 38. “308,00F pour un Sérusier à la salle des ventes,” Le Télégramme de Brest, May 4, 1981, p. 5, 8, 13. “Sérusier à l’honneur,” La Gazette de L’Hôtel Drouot, May 8, 1981, p. 56. Antoine Terrasse, Pont-Aven, l’Ecole buissonnière (Paris: Découvertes Gallimard Peinture, 1992), p. 80–81 (color ill.), 154. Caroline Boyle-Turner, Sérusier et la Bretagne (Douarnenez : Le Chasse-Marée/ArMen, 1995), p. 44–46 (color ill.). Musée de Pont-Aven, Petite encyclopédie des peintres de Bretagne: Paul Sérusier (Morlaix: Studio T, 1996), p. 15 (color ill.). Léo Kerlo and Jacqueline Duroc, Peintres des Côtes de Bretagne: De Quimper à Concarneau, de Pont-Aven à l’anse du Pouldu (Douarnez: Chasse-Marée, 2006), p. 201 (color ill.).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Paul Sérusier (French, 1864–1927)
    Date
    1890
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    60 × 70 cm (23 5/8 × 27 9/16 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Style
    synthetist
    Place
    France
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Through prior gift of Mrs. Clive Runnells
    Accession no.
    2011.307

    Provenance

    Collection of the artist’s wife Marguerite Sérusier (d. 1950); bequeathed to Paule-Henriette Boutaric, Paris; sold, Hôtel des Ventes, Brest, May 3, 1981, to Samuel Josefowitz, Geneva and New York.

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