page_title: Charles Laval
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Laval
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context_page_description: Charles Laval was a French painter associated with the Synthetic movement and Pont-Aven School.
  Laval was born in Paris, and was a contemporary and friend of Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh. Gauguin created a portrait of him in 1886 looking at one of Gauguin's ceramic sculptures, entitled Still Life with Profile of Laval.
context_section_description: Charles Laval (17 March 1862 – 27 April 1894) was a French painter associated with the Synthetic movement and Pont-Aven School.
  Laval was born in Paris, and was a contemporary and friend of Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh.  Gauguin created a portrait of him in 1886 looking at one of Gauguin's ceramic sculptures, entitled Still Life with Profile of Laval.
caption: Charles Laval, Self Portrait, 1888, oil on canvas, 50 × 60 cm Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam
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