Coast of Brittany, spring morning - Portec, 1911 Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower left. 54 x 73 cm. Provenance: Acquired from the artist by Durand-Ruel on July 7, 1911. Old label with inventory number 9682. Exhibition: Retrospective, Musée de Pont-Aven, 1988, reproduced in the catalog, under n° 18 p. 29. 29 "Coasts, woods, valleys, in all seasons, he searched them in all directions and reproduced them as he had felt them, with all his soul and all his sincerity. In harmonious composed lines, he made the sea that he knew so well turn around and the volutes of its waves where the snakes of foam formed arabesques of the most beautiful effect". - Extract from a manuscript of Maxime Maufra -
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