![Henri Le Sidaner - Snow [1915]](http://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49063475911_ac5342c09d_b.jpg)
This work depicts Pont-Aven, a Brittany milling town popular with artists such as Paul Gauguin, Emile Bernard and Paul Sérusier. Apart from the metropolises of Paris and London, Le Sidaner was attracted to the atmospheric small towns in Normandy, Brittany, and the Côte d'Azur, whose old buildings and architecture were even then being slowly threatened with extinction. He often depicted these magical old towns in twilight, masterfully capturing the atmosphere of the fading evening light, in which the gaslights in windows and forms on the stones seem to shimmer and dissolve.
[Christie’s, New York - Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm]