The Green Christ

The Green Christ

Infobox Painting|



title=The Green Christ
artist=Paul Gauguin
year=1889
type=Oil on canvas
height=92
width=73
museum=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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