in a letter to vincent van gogh he described the painting: reader: (gauguin): breton women praying: verytense black clothes -- yellow-white bonnets, very luminous. the ground is pure vermillion. i think i have achieved great simplicity in the figures, very rustic, very superstitious... for me in this painting the landscape and the fight exist only in the imagination of the people praying after the sermon, which is why there is a contrast between the people, who are natural, and the struggle going on in the landscape which is non-natural and out of proportion. narrator: the painting made him a father figure to the younger artists. gauguin playfully caricatured himself as lucifer, the fallen angel. halo intact, framed by the apples of temptation and grasping the serpent, gauguin has cast himself as both saint and sinner. it was painted on a cupboard door in the dining room of the inn at le pouldu, which now displays replicas of his works. on the other side, he painted a portrait of his friend meijer de haan, a dutch artist and protegÉ he met in brittany. gauguin turned meijer de haan into

in a letter to vincent van gogh he described the painting: reader: (gauguin): breton women praying: verytense black clothes -- yellow-white bonnets, very luminous. the ground is pure vermillion. i think i have achieved great simplicity in the figures, very rustic, very superstitious... for me in this painting the landscape and the fight exist only in the imagination of the people praying after the sermon, which is why there is a contrast between the people, who are natural, and the struggle going on in the landscape which is non-natural and out of proportion. narrator: the painting made him a father figure to the younger artists. gauguin playfully caricatured himself as lucifer, the fallen angel. halo intact, framed by the apples of temptation and grasping the serpent, gauguin has cast himself as both saint and sinner. it was painted on a cupboard door in the dining room of the inn at le pouldu, which now displays replicas of his works. on the other side, he painted a portrait of his friend meijer de haan, a dutch artist and protegÉ he met in brittany. gauguin turned meijer de haan into