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National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake , also known as Self-Portrait , is an 1889 oil-on-wood painting by French artist Paul Gauguin , which represents his late Brittany period in the fishing village of Le Pouldu in northwestern France.
To heighten the luminosity and enhance their jewellike effect, Gauguin applied a thin layer of clear wax to the surface of his early Tahitian paintings. [3] The painting was previously owned by Chester Dale, who left his collection to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. in 1962. [8]
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) was a leading 19th-century Post-Impressionist artist, painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist and writer.His bold experimentation with color directly influenced modern art in the 20th century while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the ...
Vision after the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel) is an oil painting by French artist Paul Gauguin, completed in 1888. It is now in the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh. It depicts a scene from the Bible in which Jacob wrestles an angel. It depicts this indirectly, through a vision that the women depicted see after a sermon in church.
Paul Gauguin, Arearea no Varua Ino,1894, watercolour monotype on Japan paper, owned originally by Degas, National Gallery of Art. Gauguin's Durand-Ruel exhibition in November 1893, which Degas chiefly organized, received mixed reviews. Among the mocking were Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and former friend Pissarro.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art A visitor at Washington DC's National Gallery of Art tried to pull an 1899 painting by Paul Gauguin off the wall on Friday afternoon, screaming, "This is
The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. ... in return for works by Gauguin and others ...
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