Portrait of Meijer de Haan by Lamplight 1889

Paul Gauguin's *Portrait of Meijer de Haan by Lamplight* (1889) depicts the artist's friend and fellow artist, Meijer de Haan, in a darkened room illuminated by lamplight. The portrait is characterized by Gauguin's bold, synthetic use of color, flat planes of form, and an expressive, almost distorted representation of de Haan's features. The work demonstrates Gauguin's move toward a more expressive, symbolic style of painting, a hallmark of his mature work. This painting can be found at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.