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Paul Gauguin \u2013 L\u2019Aven Below the Montagne Sainte-Marguerite \u2013 hand-painted oil painting reproduction<\/h2>\n

The river the town is named after. The canvas was painted in 1888<\/strong> in Brittany, oil on canvas, and measures 92.2 cm wide by 72.9 cm high<\/strong> \u2014 a landscape<\/strong> format. It is held by the Artizon Museum<\/strong> (Ishibashi Foundation) in Tokyo, the museum formerly called the Bridgestone Museum of Art<\/strong>. We paint the scene again by hand: a hand-painted oil painting reproduction<\/strong>, oil on canvas, never a print.<\/p>\n

Where the painter stood<\/h3>\n

The museum catalogues its picture simply as Landscape near Pont-Aven<\/em>, and its own description says where the view is taken from: the woods known as the Bois d\u2019Amour<\/strong> on the outskirts of Pont-Aven, looking across the river Aven<\/strong> to the farm on the far bank. The place-name supplies the rest: pont<\/em> is a bridge, and Pont-Aven is the bridge on the Aven. Our longer French title describes the same scene from the other side \u2014 the river below the Montagne Sainte-Marguerite.<\/p>\n

What is on the canvas<\/h3>\n

A rounded green hill<\/strong> rises across the middle, trees along its crest and a pale track running down its flank. In front stand pollarded willows<\/strong> with thick knotted stumps, and bare poplars beside them. A low stone wall separates the meadow from the slope. In the lower right the Aven<\/strong> runs over shallow, pale-lit rocks. The sky is thin and milky, with no sun in it. At the lower left is the signature<\/strong>, legible on our reproduction: P Gauguin .88<\/em>.<\/p>\n

1888, before the turn<\/h3>\n

This is Pont-Aven, the village that gave a whole circle of painters its name, and the year in which Gauguin\u2019s painting turned. The turn is not visible here yet: the touch is still broken, and the colour still describes light and damp rather than flat shape. The museum\u2019s own description notes the same thing \u2014 traces of Impressionist brushwork in the handling of the river and the hill, while the green meadow and the group of trees already show an interest in the decorative. That is what makes this landscape worth looking at: it catches the painter halfway.<\/p>\n

A hand-painted reproduction for your home<\/h3>\n

Soft greens, greys and ochres make a quiet range; the picture does not compete with the room and holds up on a smaller or poorly lit wall \u2014 a hallway, a bedroom, the wall beside a bookcase. The landscape format suits a wide wall. The original measures 72.9 \u00d7 92.2 cm<\/strong>; we paint it in eight sizes, which you choose in the selector above this text. From the same Pont-Aven come Breton Girls Dancing, Pont-Aven<\/a>; two years earlier came Rocks by the Sea<\/a>, and later Winter Landscape<\/a> \u2014 the same Brittany under snow.<\/p>\n