Breton Women In The Moor By Ernest Guérin

Style: Breton School Condition: Excellent Technique: Watercolor on paper Other: Signed lower right and titled "Les Bigoudennes, Bretagne, Ernest Guérin" Height: 23 cm Width: 15cm Dimensions with frame: 35/44 cm Ernest Guérin was born in Rennes in 1887, he was a student at the School of Fine Arts in his hometown under the direction of Jules Ronsin who was then director of the school. He will be trained by Jean Lafon, marine painter and will continue his teaching in Paris before returning definitively to Brittany. An artist apart in the history of Breton painting, Guérin does not claim any group or movement. At the time of the beginning of the 20th century, when the great artistic revolutions ignited, Ernest Guérin invites us to visit a colorful Brittany, inspired by medieval times. Author of an important set of works on Brittany, he was a watercolourist, miniaturist, illuminator. It reveals to us a Brittany of tales and legends, in which Lilliputian characters walk along paths strewn with pebbles. “This man who likes to present himself at the end of adolescence, as the subject of a duchy which does not exist and the prince of a territory which no guide describes, is the inventor of a country of which he seems alone hold the keys” (Ernest Guérin, Romane Pétroff).