During his years at Pont-Aven and Le Pouldu in the late 1880s, Paul Gauguin painted and sketched the women of Brittany repeatedly, drawn to their traditional dress, tall lace coiffes, and the region's deep Catholic piety, which he saw as a link to an older, less modernized way of life. "Seated Breton Woman" reflects this Brittany period, when Gauguin and fellow painters at Pont-Aven were developing Synthetism, simplifying form and color into bold, flattened shapes inspired partly by folk art and Japanese prints. These Breton studies mark an important step in Gauguin's move away from Impressionism, toward the more symbolic style he would carry to Tahiti.
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