The museum presents more than 50 works - from the earliest, Parisian and created in Brittany, to the later, Polynesian period.

Surprisingly, this is the first exhibition dedicated to the portraits of Paul Gauguin, who wrote a lot of them. She included more than 50 of his works in oil, on paper and sculpture - from the earliest, Parisian and created in Brittany, where the artist spent two years (1893-1895), and until the late, Polynesian period.

Collected from various world museums and private collections, they demonstrate how radically Gauguin managed to renew this traditional genre.

In self-portraits, which the artist painted all his life, he included his own paintings (\; in some he compared himself with the characters of Victor Hugo’s novel, as in Les Miserables, in others he hinted at his suffering, as in Self-Portrait with a Halo, or even portrayed himself in the image of Christ himself, which, of course, should have shocked contemporaries (.

Another innovation - models posed for the artist in an interior familiar to them or for some occupation, which was supposed to add additional meaning to the picture, except for the image of the person portrayed, such as in Susanna sewing, where the girl is depicted naked, hinting at.

Source: theartnewspaper.