Roderic O'Conor 1860-1940

Quimper, Musée des Beaux-Arts, L'École de Pont-Aven dans les collections publiques et privées de Bretagne, 1978, with tour to Rennes and Nantes, no.74, illustrated in the catalogue;
Pont-Aven, Musée de Pont-Aven, Roderic O'Conor 1860-1940, 1984, no.82, illustrated in the catalogue;
London, Barbican Art Gallery, Roderic O’Conor, 1860-1940, 1985 with tour to Belfast, Dublin and Manchester, no.117, illustrated in the catalogue;
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Gauguin & l'École de Pont-Aven, 1989, no.147, illustrated;
Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, The Prints of Roderic O'Conor, 2001, no.42, illustrated in the catalogue.

W. Jaworska, Gauguin et l'École de Pont-Aven, Neuchatel, 1971, p.224, illustrated.

This is O'Conor's only known lithograph print, apart that is from Tête d'enfant which was reproduced in L'Ymagier in 1895.  The posture of the two mysterious cloaked figures, bent by the extremes of the wind in a barren landscape, is deliberately echoed in the shape of the weathered tree beyond them.  The visual similarity between the figures and the tree symbolises the dependence of both on nature for their existence and represents the hardship of life as it was experienced on the exposed coastline at le Pouldu.  Probably printed in Paris in 1898, acting on advice from Seguin.