The White River[a] is a June 1888 oil on canvas painting byPaul Gauguin and now in theMuseum of Grenoble, which bought it for 20,000 francs in 1923.[2][3][4]
It shows a landscape in the countryside ofBrittany on the banks of theRiver Aven aroundPont-Aven. On the other side of the work is the August 1888Portrait of Madeleine Bernard by the same artist, seemingly using both sides of the same canvas for practical reasons, due to lack of funds or because he could not find canvases in Pont-Aven at that time.[5][6][7]
It was initially acquired by a collector from Montpellier,Maurice Fabre, who then sold it toEugène Druet. It then passed toAlexandre Bernheim and was bought by its present owner in 1923 for 20,000 francs or - as that museum's curatorAndry-Farcy put it - "10,000 francs per Gauguin!".[8] It was stolen in June 1978 whilst being brought back from an exhibition inMarseille, but was recovered in a poor state of conservation the following year. It has now been re-framed and restored.[9] It also appeared on a 2013 French stamp designed by Valérie Besser.[10]
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