{"product_id":"paul-gauguin-self-portrait-with-portrait-of-emile-bernard-les-miserables-fine-art-print","title":"Paul Gauguin — Self-Portrait with Portrait of Émile Bernard (Les Misérables) | Fine Art Print","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe painter shows himself head and shoulders at the left, turned three-quarters and glancing sideways, with a reddish moustache and beard, a green jacket and a blue collar. The flat chrome-yellow ground behind him is scattered with sprays of white and blue flowers with red buds. At the upper right, inside a green panel, is a small profile portrait of Émile Bernard outlined in red. Inscribed at lower right 'les misérables', 'à l'ami Vincent' and 'PGauguin 88'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVan Gogh suggested that Gauguin and Émile Bernard exchange self-portraits with him, following the example he saw in Japanese printmakers, each including the other's likeness in the background. Gauguin cast himself as Jean Valjean, the outcast hero of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, and wrote to Van Gogh that the likeness stood for all artists as victims of society. He sent it from Pont-Aven to Arles in early October 1888, and it stayed in the Van Gogh family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe original: oil on canvas, 1888, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Gauguin (1848–1903) gave up a career as a Paris stockbroker to paint, and in 1885 left his wife and five children to pursue it. He led the Pont-Aven painters toward flat colour and simplified form, and worked beside Van Gogh in Arles in 1888. From 1891 he lived mostly in Tahiti and, from 1901, the Marquesas, where Polynesian figures, colour and myth became his subject. There he took girls of thirteen and fourteen as his 'wives': by his own account Teha'amana, whose face recurs in the Tahitian paintings of 1891–93, was thirteen. His synthetist style shaped the Nabis, Fauvism and Expressionism; in recent decades historians and museums have reassessed him for this sexual exploitation of Polynesian girls and for the colonial fantasy of Tahiti his work helped build. His paintings are held by the Musée d'Orsay, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass, or unframed. 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