Celtic Tale by Paul Sérusier - 1894 - 111.4 × 111.7 cm Dallas Museum of Art Celtic Tale by Paul Sérusier - 1894 - 111.4 × 111.7 cm Dallas Museum of Art

Celtic Tale

oil on canvas • 111.4 × 111.7 cm

  • Paul Sérusier - November 9, 1864 - October 7, 1927 Paul Sérusier

    1894

During the late 1880s, Paul Sérusier worked with a group of artists in the French province of Brittany, home of the ancient Celts. The artists wanted to capture Brittany’s rugged landscape and simple Celtic customs and rituals. They experimented with color, shape, and line to suggest feelings or ideas. Unlike the Impressionists, they were not interested in modern life, but rather in the timeless, spiritual values they associated with this remote area of France.