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Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake
is an 1889
oil on wood
painting by French artist
Paul Gauguin
, which represents his late
Brittany
period in the fishing village of
Le Pouldu
in northwestern France. It shows Gauguin against a red background with a halo above his head and apples hanging beside him as he holds a snake in his hand while plants or flowers appear in the foreground. The
religious symbolism
and the stylistic influence of
Japanese wood-block prints
and
cloisonnism
are apparent. The work is one of more than 40 self-portraits he completed. It is held at the
National Gallery of Art
in Washington, D.C.
Painting:
Paul Gauguin
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