Pont-Aven: Gauguin's Painters' Village
Brittany, France
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Pont-Aven: Gauguin's Painters' Village
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In the late 1880s Paul Gauguin and Émile Bernard led a group of painters at Pont-Aven, the mill town on the Aven, who became known as the Pont-Aven School. The painted wooden Christ in the chapel of Trémalo, built in 1550, is the one Gauguin put into both Le Christ jaune and Autoportrait au Christ jaune in 1889.
Required Activities
1
of 5
Visit the Musée de Pont-Aven, reopened on 26 March 2016 with its gallery space doubled, and find its fourteen Gauguins and the six works the Musée d'Orsay lent it, among them Gauguin's Village breton sous la neige of 1894
2
of 5
Walk the Bois d'Amour on the slope above the Aven, the wood where Gauguin gave Sérusier the painting lesson of September 1888 that set off the Nabis, and pick out the bend of the river the school painted over and over
3
of 5
In the chapel of Trémalo find the painted wooden Christ that Gauguin turned into The Yellow Christ in 1889, then look up at the sablières under the chestnut vault, carved with grotesque masks of men and animals, and find the du Plessis arms near the choir
4
of 5
Follow the Aven down through the town past the old watermills behind the saying 'Pont-Aven, ville de renom, quatorze moulins, quinze maisons', and find the moulin David that Gauguin painted, the moulin du Grand Poulguin and the moulin de Rosmadec
5
of 5
Take a boat trip on the Aven and Belon estuaries with the Vedettes Aven-Belon
Visit the Musée de Pont-Aven, reopened on 26 March 2016 with its gallery space doubled, and find its fourteen Gauguins and the six works the Musée d'Orsay lent it, among them Gauguin's Village breton sous la neige of 1894
Walk the Bois d'Amour on the slope above the Aven, the wood where Gauguin gave Sérusier the painting lesson of September 1888 that set off the Nabis, and pick out the bend of the river the school painted over and over
In the chapel of Trémalo find the painted wooden Christ that Gauguin turned into The Yellow Christ in 1889, then look up at the sablières under the chestnut vault, carved with grotesque masks of men and animals, and find the du Plessis arms near the choir
Follow the Aven down through the town past the old watermills behind the saying 'Pont-Aven, ville de renom, quatorze moulins, quinze maisons', and find the moulin David that Gauguin painted, the moulin du Grand Poulguin and the moulin de Rosmadec
Take a boat trip on the Aven and Belon estuaries with the Vedettes Aven-Belon
Before you go
The Vedettes Aven-Bélon run from 1 April to 15 October from Pont-Aven and Port du Bélon; sailing times shift with the tide because the quay at Pont-Aven dries out twice a day. Check the day's departures before making the trip.
The Musee de Pont-Aven shuts for the whole of January after the Christmas holidays and is closed on Mondays for the rest of the year outside July and August, so a winter visit needs the calendar checked twice — for the month and for the day.
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