Marguerite and Paul Sérusier. The collection revealed.
Locus Solus| N° d'inventaire | 31778 |
| Format | 16 x 24 |
| Détails | 192 p., paperback |
| Publication | Châteaulin, 2025 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782368335604 |
A major "post-impressionist" artist of the painting revival at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Paul Sérusier (1864-1927) is present in the greatest museums in the world. Alongside the pioneers of the Pont-Aven School (Gauguin, Bernard, Lacombe, etc.) and the Nabi movement (Bonnard, Vuillard, Maurice Denis, etc.), he left behind a singular, immense body of work. This work accompanies the opening in Châteauneuf-du-Faou (29) of the only museum entirely dedicated to him, as well as to his wife, the unjustly overlooked Marguerite Gabriel-Claude (1879-1950).
She herself, an artist, had a vocation for teaching and the decorative arts and studied under Paul Sérusier and Maurice Denis at the Académie Ranson, one of the first women in this workshop at the time. Both lived for decades in Brittany and painted the inhabitants and the rolling countryside of inland Finistère, seduced by the beauty and mystique of the place, a major inspiration for their paintings. The municipal collection of nearly 150 works (wood, oils, drawings, etc.) – many of which are presented and commented on in this book for the first time – is a rich testimony to this artist couple and their era, alongside Paul Sérusier's last decorations visible in situ: the murals of the baptistery, at the Saint-Julien church.
A major "post-impressionist" artist of the painting revival at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Paul Sérusier (1864-1927) is present in the greatest museums in the world. Alongside the pioneers of the Pont-Aven School (Gauguin, Bernard, Lacombe, etc.) and the Nabi movement (Bonnard, Vuillard, Maurice Denis, etc.), he left behind a singular, immense body of work. This work accompanies the opening in Châteauneuf-du-Faou (29) of the only museum entirely dedicated to him, as well as to his wife, the unjustly overlooked Marguerite Gabriel-Claude (1879-1950).
She herself, an artist, had a vocation for teaching and the decorative arts and studied under Paul Sérusier and Maurice Denis at the Académie Ranson, one of the first women in this workshop at the time. Both lived for decades in Brittany and painted the inhabitants and the rolling countryside of inland Finistère, seduced by the beauty and mystique of the place, a major inspiration for their paintings. The municipal collection of nearly 150 works (wood, oils, drawings, etc.) – many of which are presented and commented on in this book for the first time – is a rich testimony to this artist couple and their era, alongside Paul Sérusier's last decorations visible in situ: the murals of the baptistery, at the Saint-Julien church.