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Pont-Aven


Pont-Aven
French village on the Aven river in Brittany, 260 km west of Paris and 7 km north of the Bay of Biscay. Before the 20th century its protected tidal harbour made it a busy commercial port for the transport of flour, firewood and fish. Though it attracted artists from the 1860s onwards, it is most famous for the colony of artists that gathered there around Paul Gauguin in the late 1880s and early 1890s. According ... (view more)

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Artists Associated with Pont-Aven — 8 artists:

Herman Anker
Paul Gauguin
Thomas Hovenden
Gustave Loiseau

Paul Peel
William Scott
Maria Wiik
Robert Wylie

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