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Self-Portrait with the Yellow Christ is an 1890 or 1891 painting by Paul Gauguin, produced in Pont-Aven in Brittany and now in the musée d'Orsay in Paris, to which it was assigned after its purchase by the French state in 1994 with financial assistance from Philippe Meyer and a Japanese patron.
The Yellow Christ (in French: Le Christ jaune) is a painting executed by Paul Gauguin in 1889 in Pont-Aven. Together with The Green Christ, it is considered to be one of the key works of Symbolism in symbolic mythological paintings of the older era as represented by Symbolism. Gauguin first visited Pont-Aven in 1886.
Self-Portrait with Halo: 1889 National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC W. 323 S. 199 Self-portrait with Mandolin: 1889 Private collection W. 325 S. 153 Christ in the Garden of Olives: 1889 Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach W. 326 S. 149 The Yellow Christ: 1889 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo W. 327 S. 151 The Green Christ: 1889
Gauguin had been a student at the Petit Séminaire de La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin, just outside Orléans, from the age of eleven to the age of sixteen.His studies there included a class in Catholic liturgy; the teacher for this class was the Bishop of Orléans, Félix-Antoine-Philibert Dupanloup.
A strangely captivating oil painting, Paul Gauguin’s Christ on the Mount of Olives is a self-portrait that places the artist in place of Christ as he embarks on a journey into the unknown. Creating both a sense of depth and hierarchy, two figures can be seen trailing behind the character in the foreground.
Note the red hair of the Christ / Gauguin self-portrait hybrid, the colour of which has been described as "supernaturally red", and as with the jug object directly evokes van Gogh. [ 4 ] The work is informed by Romantic and Symbolist iconography, [ 18 ] as well as motifs from Christian and classical sources; [ 4 ] it evokes Christ, John the ...
The last privately owned Leonardo da Vinci painting and one of fewer than 20 by the Renaissance artist known to still exist is hitting the auction block.
Christ Crucified (Velázquez) Christ of Saint John of the Cross; Christ on the Cross (Murillo) Crucifix (Cimabue, Arezzo) Crucifix (Cimabue, Santa Croce) The Crucifixion (Cranach) Cristo de Chircales; Crucified Christ (Cosmè Tura) Crucifix of Pisa; Crucifixion (Tintoretto) Crucifixion (Titian) Crucifixion (1933) Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)