Close
Pont-Aven
About Pont-Aven
Description of Pont-Aven
Examples of Pont-Aven
Pont-Aven Artists - 8
Auction Houses - 162
|
|
About Pont-Aven
Description of 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)
Grove Art excerpts - Electronic ©2003, Oxford Art Online
Examples of Pont-Aven at Auction
