The Green Christ

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The Green Christ
Paul Gauguin, 1889
Oil on canvas
92 × 73 cm
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. Together with The Yellow Christ, it is considered to be one of the key-works of Symbolism in painting.

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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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