Self-Portrait

Date: 1889
Medium: oil on wood
Location: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
Dimensions: 79.2 x 51.3

Gauguin painted picture Self-Portrait in 1889. Prevailing color of this fine art print is brown and its shape is portrait. Original size is 79.2 x 51.3. This art piece is located in National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA. This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (1848-1903). French painter and a leading figure of Postimpressionism. His experiments with colour strongly influenced modern art of the early 20th century. As one of the first, he subscribed to primitivism: simplified and exaggerated contours of the body, strong and contrasting colours. This artistic style was partly due his admiration for the art of the primitive cultures of Africa, Micronesia and North American Indians. Gauguin himself had the opportunity to experience life on Tahiti, where he resided from 1891 until his death. It was in Polynesia that he created his most famous paintings.