Special thanks to the entire group in WRI 153 for workshopping my research paper.

I.Art works by Paul Gauguin:

Gauguin, Paul. Self-portrait with Halo. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. 1889.

Gauguin, Paul. Self-portrait with Yellow Christ. Private Collection. 1889-1890.

Gauguin, Paul. Self portrait in the Garden of Olives. Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida. Summer 1889.

Gauguin, Paul. Self-portrait near Golgotha. Museo de Arte de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brasil. Summer 1896.

II. Secondary sources

Amishai- Maisels, Ziva. Gauguin’s Religious Themes. New York and London : Garland Publishing, 1985.

Brettell, Richard. Cachin, Francoise. Thory Claire Freches. Stuckey, Charles. The Art of Paul Gauguin. New Haven, CT: Eastern Press, 1988.

Gauguin, Paul. The writings of a Savage. Ed. Daniel Guerin. New York: Da Capo Press, 1978.

Jirat-Wasiutyński, Vojtĕch. “Paul Gauguin’s ‘Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake’: The Artist as Initiate and Magus. Spec. issue of Mysticism and Occultism in Modern Age. Art Journal 46.1(Spring, 1987), 22-28.

Kantor- Gukovskaya, Asya. Paul Gauguin: Mysterious Affinities. Anna Braskaya, Marina Bessonova. Bournermouth, England: Parkstone/ Aurora Publishers, 1995.

Powers, D. Edward. ” Paul Gauguin and the World Made Flesh. Oxford Art Journal, Vol. 24(February 25,2002), 89-106.

Solana, Guillermo. Gauguin and the Origins of Symbolism.London, England:Philip Wilson, 2004.

Rookmaaker,H.R. Gauguin and 19th Century Art Theory. Amsterdam: Swets & Zeitlinger, 1972.