Paul Serusier

By the Sea in Pouldu

oil on canvas 37x55 cm

Trees along a Creek

Paysage

Nature morte- l’atelier de l’artiste

Roof Tops in Paris

The Talisman, 1888

"The Talisman" is a small, square painting that depicts a forest scene in muted colors. It is considered an important work in the history of modern art because it was a key influence on the development of the Fauvist movement and the broader Post-Impressionist movement.

Mother and Child on a Breton Landscape, 1890

Woman in a Street, 1891

The Stagecoach Road in the Country with a Cart, 1903

(attribué à) Paysage valloné

Paul Sérusier was a French painter who was a pioneer of abstract art and an inspiration for the avant-garde Nabi movement, Synthetism and Cloisonnism. The painting, that became known as The Talisman, was created under the close supervision of Gauguin. It is an extreme exercise in Cloisonnism that approximates to pure abstraction.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_S%C3%A9rusier