Outskirts of Pont-Aven

Copyright

Work in the public domain
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Maker


1841-1919

Title

Outskirts of Pont-Aven

Date of Production

c. 1888-90

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 54.5 cm (canvas)
Width: 65 cm (canvas)

Object Number

P.1978.PG.339

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

On display
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Label Text

In the late 1880s, Pierre-Auguste Renoir made several visits to Pont-Aven, an artists’ colony in Brittany where Paul Gauguin also worked. In this painting, Renoir contrasts loosely brushed shadows and grass rippling in a breeze with crisply defined trees. This work shows him gradually moving away from the sketch-like quality of the Impressionist technique. His forms are more boldly delineated with a forceful use of colour, as seen in the play of the sun on the tree trunks.

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : signed : lower left & recto : : Renoir

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris; Capt. S. W. Sykes, Cambridge; Count Antoine Seilern acquired, London 1942; Princes Gate Bequest, 1978

Exhibition History

Masterpieces of Impressionism from The Courtauld Gallery, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 10/09/2019-15/12/2019; Aichi Prefectural Museum, Nagoya, Japan, 03/01/2020-15/03/2020; Kobe City Museum, Kobe, Japan, 28/03/2020-21/06/2020
Into the 20th century - New Displays at the Courtauld, Courtauld Gallery, London, 10/10/2002
The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 14/06/1998-21/09/1998
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The Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, 26/12/1997-12/05/1998
The Impressionists and Post-Impressionists from the Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, 12/01/1984-28/02/1984; Kyoto, 03/03/1984-03/04/1984; Osaka, 12/04/1984-08/05/1984; Australia National Gallery, Canberra, 01/06/1984-06/08/1984
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Literature

The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1998
The Impressionists and Post-Impressionists from the Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Canberra, 1984
cat. no. 63

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