Paul Gauguin's Tahitian mistress Tehamana modeled ... In the foreground a group of Breton women, their traditional bonnets looking like “monstrous helmets” (as Gauguin wrote to Vincent van ...

There are dozens of Breton costumes, varying by village ... inspiring artists like Paul Gauguin. In those times the coiffe “was like an identity card,” says Solenn Boennec, an assistant ...