Pet Doorbell Sale Coupon Home of the Pet Doorbell Mat Login to your Account Pet Doorbell Pet Doorbell Mat System Great Artist Paintings Vermont covererd bridges About the Pet Doorbell Mat Bar Stools Netshops Vermont Photographs-Pet Doorbell Vermont Teddy Bear Computer Geeks Knives Smart Bargains-Bargins-Pet Doorbell World Trade Center 09/10/01 Lighthouse Photographs Chess Sets-Netshops Doghouse -Pet Doorbell Globes-Netshops Adirondack Chair Bakers Racks Benches Bocce Ball-Netshops Clocks FIREPIT SHOP Firepits-Netshops Fireplace-Netshops Armoire Gallery-Netshops Bird Bath and Feeders-Pet Doorbell Hickory Farms Photography Tips-Kaplan About PawBella Burlinton Vermont Chamber of Commerce PawBella-Pets Search Site Map Check Out Log Out View Cart Login to my account Paul Gauguin French, 1848 - 1903 Self-Portrait $55.00 Present Location Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Gauguin painted many self-portraits, but few are as enigmatic as this one. It was part of the decoration that Gauguin and his colleague Meyer de Haan created for the dining room of the inn where they were staying in Le Pouldu. In six weeks, soon after their arrival in late 1889, they made dozens of ceramic works, woodcarvings, and sculpture, and they covered the walls with paintings. This self-portrait, and a paired portrait Gauguin did of de Haan, may have decorated cupboard doors. At the time, Gauguin's likeness was described by friends as an "unkind character sketch" -- a caricature. Today, it is the subject of intense analysis. Some see the artist casting himself in the role of Satan, others as Christ. What are we to make of the imagery -- the apples that precipitate man's fall from grace; the halo over Gauguin's disembodied head; the snake that is both tempter of Eve and the embodiment of knowledge; the bold division into vivid yellow and red, evocative of both hellfire and the heat of creation? Perhaps it is most likely that Gauguin is revealing his conception of the artist as hero, and -- almost to challenge his colleagues -- of himself, particularly, as a kind of magus, a master who knows that he possesses the power of magic by virtue of talent and genius.

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