In the late 1880s, Paul Gauguin and a group of other artists put Pont-Aven on the map of art history. Working in that small Brittany town, they moved art an essential step beyond impressionism and ...
A small settlement in Brittany, Pont-Aven has had an outsize influence on the history of Western painting: post-Impressionist master Paul Gauguin first came to the village in 1886, and returned ...
Pont-Aven artists influenced by the movement feature heavily in Masterpieces from the Collection of Sam Josefowitz: A Lifetime of Discovery and Scholarship, which includes works from Gauguin, Felix ...
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Little-known French town that’s been likened to Cornwall with riverfront cottages and new UK flights
A SMALL French town has been compared to the village of St Ives, being in a region dubbed the ‘Cornwall of France’. Pont-Aven in northwestern France is found in Cornouaille, in Brittany. Pont-Aven has ...
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Little-known French town that’s been likened to Cornwall with riverfront cottages and new UK flights
Watch our video on pretty villages to visit in France A SMALL French town has been compared to the village of St Ives, being in a region dubbed the ‘Cornwall of France’. Pont-Aven in northwestern ...
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