Musée de Pont-Aven

The Musée de Pont Aven's permanent collection contains over 120 works accompanied by texts that guide visitors through the revolution of modern art.

This guidebook presents a varied and relevant selection of the thousands of works and archived documents that make up the museum's collection. Over its 35 years of existence, the museum has acquired a significant number of works by Paul Gauguin, Émile Bernard, Paul Sérusier, Maurice Denis and Charles Filiger. Established on the very site where these artists lived and worked, the Musée de Pont-Aven documents and uniquely demonstrates the Pont-Aven School as an aesthetic revolution that anticipated modern art.

Within its walls steeped in history, the museum also presents the canvases, drawings and etchings by artists linked to this harbour town and the surrounding area from the mid-19th century. The heirs of Synthetism, whose influences are a blend of Impressionism, Japonism and the symbolic fervour of the Nabis, have a prominent place in the collection.

Supported by institutions, local and regional authorities and donors, the museum's collection showcases a movement that, as stated in the preface, « made Brittany a unique site of concrete and poetic experimentation ».