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Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake
Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake, also known as Self-Portrait, 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. No longer comfortable with Pont-Aven, Gauguin moved on to Le Pouldu with his friend and student Meijer de Haan and a small group of artists. He stayed for several months in the autumn of 1889 and the summer of 1890, where the
pattern. Both works were completed sometime between mid-November and mid-December 1889.
Description.
French art historian Françoise Cachin notes that Gauguin designed both "Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake" and its companion piece "Portrait of Jacob Meyer de Haan" as a caricature. In his "Self-Portrat", Gauguin appears against a red background with a halo above his head and apples hanging beside him as he holds a snake in his hand with what appear to be either plants or flowers in the