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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.
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 ...
Arearea no varua ino (The Amusement of the Evil Spirit), 1894, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Parau na te Varua ino (Words of the Devil), 1892, National Gallery of Art Washington In the wave or Ondine, 1889, Cleveland Museum of Art. Gauguin painted Fatata te miti (By the Sea) in 1892 during his first trip to Tahiti.
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.
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.
The Paul Gauguin Interpretation Centre, formerly known as the Centre d'Art Musée Paul Gauguin, [1] [2] was originally a museum. In 1969, museum organizers created the "Association for the Creation of a Museum Paul Gauguin" to celebrate the trip of the famous painter to Martinique.
The National Gallery of Art is an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of charge, the museum was privately established in 1937 for the American people by a joint resolution of the United States Congress.
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