Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Jean-François Millet works come to the Norton!
Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Portrait from the National Gallery of Art
September 4, 2010 - February 8, 2011
 Paul Gauguin, Christ in the Garden of Olives, 1889. Oil on canvas (West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art) | For the next several months the Norton Museum’s celebrated painting by Paul Gauguin, Christ in the Garden of Olives, 1889 (illustrated at right), will be featured in the exhibition Gauguin: Maker of Myth at the Tate Modern, London, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. In this work Gauguin portrayed himself in a tragic, iconic mode as Jesus Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane on the night of his betrayal by Judas Iscariot. In a poignant reference to his attempted artistic liaison with Vincent van Gogh, which had recently ended in a debacle, Gauguin has given himself bright orange-red hair—like that of his erstwhile colleague and friend. During much of our painting’s absence from West Palm Beach the Museum will display, instead, an almost exactly contemporaneous self-portrait by Van Gogh, likewise painted in the immediate aftermath of the contentious and aborted sojourn with Gauguin, at Arles, which lasted from October through December 1888. |
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