The Yellow Christ by Paul Gauguin, 1889
Buffalo AKG Art Museum · wikidata.org
Public domain
Apparently the cross here is modelled on a carved wooden one from a small local chapel, repainted bright yellow and dropped into a working field with the women dressed the way locals actually did back then.
Erisava: The yellow works better than it has any right to.
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