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The Yellow Christ
1889 · oil on canvas · Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo
For Good Friday
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image 7.9×10 in on a 8×10 in sheet
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The Christ is the colour of the fields behind him, and the fields are the yellow of a Breton autumn, with the trees gone red along the lane. Three women in white coifs and black bodices kneel at the foot of the cross with their hands folded; the nearest has her eyes cast down. Beyond the wall a small figure climbs over into the next field, a man going home. Paul Gauguin painted it at Pont-Aven in 1889 and signed it at the lower right, and the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, which bought it in 1946, records that he took the figure from a seventeenth-century wooden crucifix in a chapel near the town, and that the yellow was chosen for what he felt about the peasants' isolated, pious lives. There is no darkened sky, no city on the hill. The crucifixion is set in an ordinary countryside at harvest, and the women have come to it as they would come to the Angelus. They are not looking up. They already know who it is.
Sources: Buffalo AKG Art Museum, 'Le Christ jaune (The Yellow Christ)', 1946:4; read 2026-10-15. · Douay-Rheims Bible, John 19 (drbo.org).
Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother and his mother's sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen.
John 19:25 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)