The Yellow Christ

Paul Gauguin

1889 · Oil on canvas · Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo

Size2:3 ratio

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About this work

Artist: Paul Gauguin (1848–1903)
Year: 1889
Medium: Oil on canvas
Original size: 92.1 × 73.3 cm
Collection: Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo
Movement: Post-Impressionism

A yellow Christ hangs on a dark cross in an autumn landscape of yellow fields and red trees, while Breton women in regional dress kneel in prayer at its foot. Gauguin painted it at Pont-Aven in the autumn of 1889, basing the figure on a seventeenth-century painted wooden crucifix in the nearby chapel of Trémalo. He said the colour was chosen to convey what he felt about the isolated, pious life of the peasants, and the harvest setting carries its own meaning in a region where the grain cycle was read as a parallel to Christian death and rebirth. With its flat planes and heavy outlines the painting is a central work of cloisonnism and, with The Green Christ, a key to Symbolist painting. Seized by the Nazis in Paris in 1940 and assigned to Göring, it was recovered after the war and bought by the Albright-Knox in Buffalo, now the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, in 1946.

This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.

Details & materials

• Exhibition poster — original, drawn in-house • Heavyweight matte fine-art paper, giclée printed at 300 DPI • Sizes: 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in; 16×24 and 24×36 also available framed in black or natural wood • Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen

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Produced in 2–4 business days, then shipped from the facility nearest you. Delivery is typically 3–6 business days (US/UK/EU) and 5–12 worldwide. Because each print is made to order we don't take change-of-mind returns, but if it arrives damaged or flawed we'll reprint or refund it — no return needed. Full policy →

Is this the whole painting, or a crop?

The whole work, uncropped. The exhibition-poster edition sets the complete image above typography designed in-house.

Is The Yellow Christ (Le Christ jaune) in the public domain?

Yes. Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) died more than 70 years ago and the work was published before 1929, so the painting itself is public domain. This print is a reproduction made from a high-resolution scan of the original, which is held by Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

What is it printed on?

Heavyweight matte fine-art paper with pigment inks, made to order in 12×18, 16×24 and 24×36 inches; the two larger sizes are also offered framed. Colours are matched to the scan, not brightened.

When was The Yellow Christ (Le Christ jaune) painted, and in what medium?

The Yellow Christ (Le Christ jaune) dates from 1889 and was made in oil on canvas; the original measures 92.1 × 73.3 cm.

What size works above a sofa or bed?

For a standard three-seat sofa or a queen bed, 24×36 inches reads as a single statement piece; 16×24 suits a narrower wall or a pairing. The print's proportions follow the original, so a landscape-format painting is wider than it is tall.

About this design

A museum-exhibition poster of Paul Gauguin's The Yellow Christ — The Yellow Christ — a crucifixion in autumn yellow on a Breton hillside, village women kneeling below — shown whole and uncropped beneath gallery typography. Post-Impressionism and The South Seas, styled as a blockbuster exhibition print. A gallery-style exhibition poster: a celebrated public-domain artwork shown whole and uncropped beneath original exhibition typography set in-house — printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper. Three sizes (12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in); the 16×24 and 24×36 are also offered framed. Part of the Madten Exhibition Posters Collection. — — — Printed to order and shipped by our production partner, Gelato.

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