All About Church at Tréboul by Christopher Wood

Title of Artwork: “Church at Tréboul”

Artwork by Christopher Wood

Year Created 1930

Summary of Church at Tréboul

A resident of Tréboul, a little town near Douarnenez, Wood spent the months of June and July 1930 painting in Brittany.

British and French painters flocked to this area, which was adjacent to Pont-Aven, where Gauguin had made his name, and where Van Gogh’s work was also essential to Wood.

Wood painted sixty canvases in forty days, largely from life and at night from postcards, most of which depicted scenes from the fishermen’s daily lives.

Painting architecture instead of boats helped him achieve a “quieter composition,” according to him.

Information Citations

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