The Green Christ

The Green Christ (in French: Le Christ vert) is a painting executed by Paul Gauguin in autumn 1889 in Pont-Aven. Together with The Yellow Christ, it is considered to be one of the key-works of Symbolism in painting. Topographically, the site depicted is the Atlantic coast at Le Pouldu. But the calvary depicted is miles away, on a square close to the church in the centre of Névez, a community close to Pont-Aven and several miles from the coast.

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Paul Gauguin

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a leading Post-Impressionist painter. His bold experimentation with colouring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the...
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