Free visit of the Gauguin House-Museum

Name: Visita libre a la Casa-Museo Gauguin
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Maison-Musée Gauguin

Discover the reconstruction of the Buvette de la Plage where Paul Gauguin and his painters friends took board from 1889.

17 i 18 septiembre 2022Passed

Maison-Musée Gauguin

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Visite libre

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About the location

Maison-Musée Gauguin

10 rue des Grands Sables, 29360 Clohars-Carnoët

Finistère
Bretagne

The Maison-Musée du Pouldu is a historical and documented reconstruction of the «Buvette de la Plage», both a symbol of the presence of Paul Gauguin in Finistère and a witness to a new artistic trend: synthesis. This stop on image of Marie Henry’s inn in 1890 is a testimony of life at the Pouldu at the end of the 19th century. The reconstruction makes it possible to understand what an inn is at this time and to evoke the particular destiny of a woman. The layout and decor of the rooms help to recreate in the imagination of visitors the atmosphere that reigned in this place of memory. De Pont-Aven… In the 1880s many painters attracted by the authenticity of the Breton landscapes and a cheap life left Paris for Pont Aven. Paul Gauguin went there for the first time in 1886, he returned there in 1888, and during the summer of 1889... At the «Buvette de la Plage»... Tired of the crowds of Pont-Aven, Paul Gauguin, accompanied by Paul Sérusier and Meijer de Haan, settled in October1889 at the