The Green Christ

The Green Christ

Artist	Paul Gauguin
Year	1889
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	92 cm × 73 cm (36.2 in × 28.7 in)
Location	Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

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.

Paul Gauguin

Paintings	Still Life with Profile of Laval (1886) Vision after the Sermon (1888) The Painter of Sunflowers (1888) Landscape near Arles (1888) The Flageolet Player on the Cliff (1889) The Yellow Christ (1889) The Green Christ (1889) Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake (1889) Still Life with Head-Shaped Vase and Japanese Woodcut (1889) Tahitian Women on the Beach (1891) Vahine no te vi (1892) Fatata te Miti (By the Sea) (1892) Arearea (1892) Spirit of the Dead Watching (1892) When Will You Marry? (1892) Merahi metua no Tehamana (1893) Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (1897/1898) Two Tahitian Women (1899)

Other works	Jug in the Form of a Head, Self-Portrait (1889) Soyez amoureuses vous serez heureuses (wood panel, 1889) Oviri (ceramic sculpture, 1895)

Exhibitions	Les XX, 1889 The Volpini Exhibition, 1889

Public collections	Courtauld Institute of Art Hermitage Museum Musée d'Orsay Museum Folkwang Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Pushkin Museum

Friends and family	Émile Bernard Vincent van Gogh Meijer de Haan Charles Laval George-Daniel de Monfreid Camille Pissarro Émile Schuffenecker Flora Tristan (grandmother)

Art dealers	Theo van Gogh Ambroise Vollard

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