“The Yellow Christ” was painted in the autumn of 1889 in Brittany. [[artist:2796|Paul Gauguin]] saw in the small chapel of Trémalo near Pont-Aven an old wooden crucifix with a painted Christ and carried it over into the autumn landscape around it. In “The Yellow Christ” the cru…
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“The Night Café in Arles” was painted in November 1888, when [[artist:2796|Paul Gauguin]] was living with [[artist:1613|Vincent van Gogh]] in the Yellow House in Arles. The café is the same one that Van Gogh had painted a little earlier in [[18003|The Night Café]]. In front sits…
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“Tahitian Women on the Beach” was painted in 1891, in the first months of [[artist:2796|Paul Gauguin]] on Tahiti. He arrived on the island in June 1891 and began to paint the people around him: the women, their clothes, their movements and their silence. In “Tahitian Women on t…
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“Self-Portrait with Portrait of Bernard (Les Misérables)” was painted in September 1888 in Pont-Aven. [[artist:1613|Vincent van Gogh]] wrote to his friends suggesting they exchange portraits and asked [[artist:2796|Paul Gauguin]] to send him one of his own. Gauguin painted himse…
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“Manaò tupapaú (Spirit of the Dead Watching)” was painted in 1892 on Tahiti. [[artist:2796|Paul Gauguin]] gave the painting a Tahitian name, which means “thinking of the spirit of the dead” or “the spirit of the dead watches”. Tahitians believed that at night the spirits of the …
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“Nevermore” was painted in 1897 on Tahiti. [[artist:2796|Paul Gauguin]] gave it an English title, after the famous poem by Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven”, in which a black bird repeats this word again and again. In “Nevermore” a naked Tahitian woman lies on a bed, with her head o…
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“Death of Sardanapalus” was painted in 1827. The subject comes from a play by the English poet Byron. [[artist:2109|Eugene Delacroix]] shows the ancient Assyrian king Sardanapalus, who orders all his possessions to be destroyed before the enemy takes the city. In “Death of Sard…
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“The Bellelli Family” is the first large painting by [[artist:2072|Edgar Degas]]. He began it in 1858 in Florence, where he was staying with his aunt Laura, his father's sister, her husband Baron Bellelli and their two daughters. The young artist was 24 years old and made dozens…
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“The Ballet Class” was painted in 1871–1874 and is one of the best-known paintings by [[artist:2072|Edgar Degas]]. The scene takes place in the rehearsal room of the old Paris Opera. The painting was commissioned by the famous singer Jean-Baptiste Faure, who collected the works …
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“Blue Dancers” was painted around 1893, in the late years of [[artist:2072|Edgar Degas]]. His eyesight was already poor, and he painted with broader movements and stronger colours. Ballet remained his subject, but he was no longer interested in details, only in colour and moveme…
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