Celtic Tale

Two cloaked men, thought to be the artist and a companion, enter a mysterious landscape filled with sinuous, undulating lines and unexpected color combinations. A light-filled meadow where ethereal-looking women float among the trees is separated by a dark, rocky outcrop from a group of figures who somberly attend to a woman on the ground, perhaps evoking elements of an ancient Celtic death ritual. In 1888, Paul Sérusier moved to an isolated area of northwest France called Brittany. There, he diligently studied the customs and religion, both ancient and modern, of that region. The interrelationship of pagan and Christian rituals and Brittany's Celtic past became the focus of many of his paintings.