Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven

Résumé du livre

"The School of Pont-Aven has yet to be fully recognized for its collective importance. Oddly enough, we have scarely progressed past Alfred Barr in acknowledging the significance of its artists, other than Gauguin, to the history of modern art. Only in the last years have historians and critics of art come to understand that Gaugin's achievement as an artist could only have been realised in a sympathetic and stimulating group setting - and that setting was the School of Pont-Aven. Now that the collections of the Musée d'Orsay are being assimilated into the larger history of modern art, and that the present representative private collection is being made accessible to the international community, the greater significance of the School of Pont-Aven as a whole is becoming ever more appreciated." -- Foreword.