Paul Gauguin first stayed at the Pension Gloanec in June 1886, and found that the guests were almost all foreigners.

Gauguin's studio in the Pension Gloanec in 1888 was decorated by prints by Utamaro.

In early October 1888 Paul Sérusier was staying at the Pension Gloanec, where he submitted a canvas to Gauguin for criticism.

The next morning Gauguin took him to the Bois d'Amour on the edge of Pont-Aven and gave him a lesson in colour.

That morning Sérusier painted The Talisman (1888), which he described to his friends when he returned to Paris as being based on "the concept, still unknown to us of the painting as a flat surface covered in colours assembled in a certain order."

Gauguin left Pont-Aven in 1889 to escape from the many painters living there.

Marie Jeanne Gloanec, "la mère des peintres", earned enough from her painters to build a larger hotel in the town square.

In 1892 the establishment was transferred to the Hotel Gloanec on the town square, later renamed the Hotel Le Glouannec.

The writer Alfred Jarry (1873–1907) visited Pont-Aven in June 1894 and booked into the Pension Gloanec, where he found Gauguin laid up with a broken leg caused by a fall during a fight with some fishermen in Concarneau.

Gauguin spent his enforced stay in the inn making woodcuts from the subjects of his Tahitian paintings.

Jarry wrote poems about three of Gauguin's Tahitian paintings in the Pension Gloanec Livre d'or, which had been started on 23 June 1894 by Gauguin, Eric Forbes-Robertson (1865–1935) and Roderic O'Conor  (1860–1940).

Jarry dated his poems 1 July 1894 and dedicated them to Gauguin.

Jarry created the woodcut illustrations for his first book while in Pont-Aven.
Paul Gauguin first stayed at the Pension Gloanec in June 1886, and found that the guests were almost all foreigners.
Gauguin's studio in the Pension Gloanec in 1888 was decorated by prints by Utamaro.
In early October 1888 Paul Sérusier was staying at the Pension Gloanec, where he submitted a canvas to Gauguin for criticism.
The next morning Gauguin took him to the Bois d'Amour on the edge of Pont-Aven and gave him a lesson in colour.
That morning Sérusier painted The Talisman (1888), which he described to his friends when he returned to Paris as being based on "the concept, still unknown to us of the painting as a flat surface covered in colours assembled in a certain order."
Gauguin left Pont-Aven in 1889 to escape from the many painters living there.
Marie Jeanne Gloanec, "la mère des peintres", earned enough from her painters to build a larger hotel in the town square.
In 1892 the establishment was transferred to the Hotel Gloanec on the town square, later renamed the Hotel Le Glouannec.
The writer Alfred Jarry (1873–1907) visited Pont-Aven in June 1894 and booked into the Pension Gloanec, where he found Gauguin laid up with a broken leg caused by a fall during a fight with some fishermen in Concarneau.
Gauguin spent his enforced stay in the inn making woodcuts from the subjects of his Tahitian paintings.
Jarry wrote poems about three of Gauguin's Tahitian paintings in the Pension Gloanec Livre d'or, which had been started on 23 June 1894 by Gauguin, Eric Forbes-Robertson (1865–1935) and Roderic O'Conor  (1860–1940).
Jarry dated his poems 1 July 1894 and dedicated them to Gauguin.
Jarry created the woodcut illustrations for his first book while in Pont-Aven.
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