La Bretagne, source d’inspiration :
regards de peintres français et japonais

18 March – 11 June 2023
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo will soon host a show to feature Western paintings depicting the Brittany region of France in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Highlights of the show “La Bretagne, source d’inspiration”

Brittany in France is blessed with a wealth of nature and the rich coastal landscape. The region has been characterized by a unique culture, including the Breton language, lifestyle, clothing, design, and architecture.

The show will bring together the 19th and the 20th century paintings depicting Brittany by Western and Japanese artists, including Paul Gauguin, Claude Monet, Henri Rivière, Alphonse Mucha and Seiki Kuroda.

Those artists got creative inspiration from the cultural idiosyncrasy and natural environment of Brittany, along with sometimes romanticized image of otherness within France.

On view are approximately 160 paintings, including 12 works by Gauguin.

Examples of works on display

クロード・モネ 《ポール=ドモワの洞窟》
1886年
油彩／カンヴァス
茨城県近代美術館

アルフォンス・ミュシャ 《岸壁のエリカの花》
1902年
カラー・リトグラフ
OGATAコレクション

アルフォンス・ミュシャ 《砂丘のあざみ》
1902年
カラー・リトグラフ
OGATAコレクション

ポール・ゴーガン 《ブルターニュの農婦たち》
1894年
油彩／カンヴァス
オルセー美術館（パリ）
ⒸRMN-Grand Palais (musée d’Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski / distributed by AMF