Mystical Paul Sérusier: Towards a Timeless Painting

Published on 04 March 2021, by Caroline Legrand

Auction on 12 March 2021 - 14:15 (CET) - 54, rue Pierre-Martin - Parc d'activités de l'Inquétrie - 62280 Saint-Martin-Boulogne

This is the Garden of Eden revisited by Paul Sérusier. After settling in Brittany, from 1894 on he became increasingly mystical, sensitively reinterpreting Biblical themes.

Paul Sérusier (1863-1927), Ève et le serpent (Eve and the Serpent), 1905, signed... Mystical Paul Sérusier: Towards a Timeless Painting

Paul Sérusier (1863-1927), Ève et le serpent (Eve and the Serpent), 1905, signed oil on panel, 120 x 60 cm (47.24 x 23.62 in).
Estimate: €45,000/55,000

Eve seems to hesitate before picking the apple of sin. She guiltily looks around her in a superb green, lush landscape evoking a Brittany where an elephant straight out of Noah's Ark lumbers by in the background. This large painting, which was shown at the Parisian gallery…

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