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Description
"The Yellow Christ" was painted by Paul Gauguin in Oil on canvas during the Post-Impressionism epoch in 1889. Original painting size was 28.7" x 36.2" (73.0cm x 92.0cm). The style of the painting is Post-Impressionist and the theme represented is Religious, Biblical Motif. The painting is currently displayed at Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
French painter, sculptor, and printmaker.
He spent his childhood in Lima (his mother was a Peruvian Creole). From c. 1872 to 1883 he was a successful stockbroker in Paris. He met Camille Pissarro about 1875, and he exhibited several times with the Impressionists. Disillusioned with bourgeois materialism, in 1886 he moved to Pont-Aven, Brittany, where he became the central figure of a group of artists [...] learn more
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Style: Post-Impressionist
Technique: Oil on canvas
Epoch: Post-Impressionism
Location: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
| Original size: | 28.7" x 36.2"
(73.0cm x 92.0cm)
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| Reproduction Size: | 28.4" x 35.7"
(72.0cm x 90.7cm)
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