The small outdoor study carried out by Sérusier in Pont-Aven in 1888, "under the direction of Gauguin" as indicated by the handwritten inscription on the back of the panel, was immediately elevated to the rank of icon. As soon as the artist, back at the Académie Jullian, presented to the Nabis this "synthetic" landscape with pure colours and simplified forms, they named it Le Talisman and hung it on the wall of their meeting place, Le Temple, where it was kept as a "relic". When Serusier died in 1927, Le Talisman joined Maurice Denis' collection, who had
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