A Country Cottage in Le Pouldu (Landscape with a House in Brittany; A Country Cottage by the Sea)

In 1889 the painter met Paul Gauguin, at that time already a prominent French Modernist, and joined a group of his artistic followers in Pont-Aven in Brittany. This led Ślewiński to applying in his work Gauguin’s concept of Synthetism, abandoning a detailed reproduction of Nature and introducing a flexible contour to outline flat patches of colour applied in his paintings. All these formal characteristics can be seen in this picture.