The Green Christ
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| Artist |
Paul Gauguin |
| Year |
1889 |
| Type |
Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions |
92 cm × 73 cm (36.2 in × 28.7 in) |
| Location |
Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique |
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 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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