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Born in Paris where, after graduating from the Lycée Condorcet with baccalaureates in Philosophy and Sciences, he attended the Académie Julian in 1886. It was here that Sérusier first met Maurice Denis. At the end of a summer vacation in Brittany in 1888, he met Paul Gauguin and the circle of artists working in Pont-Aven and Le Pouldu. Gauguin’s lesson to Sérusier, and the work by Gauguin that Sérusier brought back to Paris, was to have a profound effect on the group that afterwards became known as the Nabis. As Maurice Denis recalled later, they felt liberated from the yoke of copying and called Gauguin’s picture 'The Talisman'. Sérusier, an energetic propagandist for a form of painting which used pure colours and the artist’s own symbolic and decorative logic, was a central figure of the Nabis, although by the 1890s, when he returned to Breton subjects, his figures were toned down.
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds
Leeds
Title
Le café
Date
1907
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 54.6 x W 64.8 cm
Accession number
LEEUA1923.9
Acquisition method
donated by Sir Michael Ernest Sadler, 1923
Work type
Painting
