Breton Girl
Paul Sérusier
c. 1890
Medium
Lithograph in black on glazed buff wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 23.6 × 11.6 cm (9 5/16 × 4 5/8 in.); Sheet: 37.8 × 27.8 cm (14 15/16 × 11 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
3386
About the Artist
Paul Sérusier · 1864–1927
The painter first studied at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris, focusing on philosophy, then painting at the Académie Julian from 1885-1890. His painting of a Breton Weaver won an honorable mention at the Salon of 1888. He was the principal figure in the formation of the group known as the Nabis, in the same year. In 1896 he collaborated on masks and sets for the first performance of Alfred Jarry’s Ubu...