Henry Moret

Moret studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts with Laurens and Gérôme and exhibited for the first time in 1880. Under the influence of Monet, he soon turned away from the academic style of his teachers. In 1888 he met Gauguin at Pont-Aven and formed a friendship with him which led to working with Gaugin’s adherents at Le Pouldu in 1889. Moret turned to Synthetism from 1888-1892 and established his own stylistic blend of Impressionism in the manner of Guillaumin and the style of the Pont-Aven school. From 1896 Moret lived in the small port of Doelan in Brittany. His favorite subject was the Breton landscape.