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The Green Christ

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Year
  
1889

Artist
  
Created
  
1889–1889

Period
  
Post-Impressionism

Medium
  
Oil on canvas

Dimensions
  
92 cm x 73 cm

Media
  
Oil paint

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Paul Gauguin artwork, Post-Impressionist artwork, Oil paintings

The Green Christ (in French: Le Christ vert) is a painting executed by Paul Gauguin in autumn 1889 in Pont-Aven, Brittany, France. Together with The Yellow Christ, it is considered to be one of the key-works of Symbolism in painting. It depicts a Breton woman at the foot of a calvary, or sculpture of Christ's crucifixion. Calvaries are common in town squares in Brittany.

Topographically, the site depicted is the Atlantic coast at Le Pouldu. But the calvary depicted is an amalgam of calvaires from different site; the cross is based upon that in the centre of Névez, a community close to Pont-Aven and several miles from the coast, and the figure of Christ is based upon the calvaire at Briec - also some distance from the sea.

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The Green Christ Wikipedia


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