Vente Paris, Ader Picard Tajan, 9 avril 1987, lot 9 

Vente Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 21 mars 1988, lot 287 

Vente Paris, Ader Picard Tajan, 26 novembre 1988, lot 44 

Vente Paris, Me Loudmer, 28 octobre 1991, lot 122

Vente Paris, Kâ-Mondo, 20 juin 2018, lot 78

Galerie de La Présidence, Paris

Acquis auprès de cette dernière par l'actuel propriétaire le 2 février 2019

Collection Louis Grandchamp des Raux

Varsovie, Royal Łazienki Museum, The Nabis – Prophets of a New Art, juillet-septembre 2026

M. Guicheteau, Paul Sérusier, tome II, Graphédis éditeur, Pontoise, 1989, n°81, reproduit en noir et blanc p.98-99

Known as the “Nabi with the shiny red beard”, Paul Sérusier was the incarnation of the quest for a new pictorial language, founded on the use of pure colour and the simplifications of forms. It was in the summer of 1888, during a stay in Concarneau and then in Pont-Aven, that Sérusier met Emile Bernard and Paul Gauguin, who would profoundly transform his manner of painting. Under Gauguin’s influence, he turned away from naturalism in order to explore an art based on emotion and synthesis. In the Bois d’Amour in Pont-Aven, on a small panel, Sérusier painted a landscape later famously called Le Talisman. Upon returning to Paris, he presented it to his fellow students at the Académie Julien who were all struck by the synthesized force and chromatic freedom of the work. Around Sérusier soon formed the group of the “Nabis”, or “prophet” in Hebrew, which opened a new approach to pictorial experimentation, breaking with academic Realism and Naturalism. Sérusier returned regularly to Brittany, working closely with Gauguin, Emile Bernard and Meyer de Haab. He found in Breton culture a source of timeless inspiration and a counterpoint to modern Parisian life. In this work on paper dated to 1899 in the catalogue raisonné, Sérusier depicts a landscape of dense and tangled vegetation, almost abstract. The blocks of colour and black outlines that give structure to the composition are reminiscent of the lessons of Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven. It is a joyous and vibrant natural world that he brings us, a bountiful nature whose primal force so fascinated the artist.