Paul Gauguin

Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin was born in Paris in 1848. In his early years he was a sailor and a successful stockbroker. He abandoned his family in his mid-thirties and became a full time painter. Gauguin had amassed enough wealth as a stockbroker that he could purchase the paintings he wanted to study. The untrained artist received guidance and support from the French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro and inspiration from Paul Cezanne. He abandoned Impressionism for a style he called Synthetism, but is more commonly associated with the Post-impressionist movement. He was heavily influenced by the large areas of flat color in Japanese prints and incorporated that into his work with expressive and non-naturalistic color and the rejection of concepts of perspective. Later in his life he moved to Tahiti and then to the Marquesas Islands in search of a more primitive environment. Among his most well known works are of Tahitian landscapes and female nudes and reflect primitive ideals.

Paul Gauguin Images:
Breton Girls Dancing, Pont-Aven
Flowers and a Bowl of Fruit on a Table
Horsemen on the Beach
Landscape at Le Pouldu
Landscape with Peacocks
Landscape with Two Breton Women
Life’s Questions
Still Life with Mandolin
Still Life With Three Puppies
Tahitian Landscape, 1891
Tahitians With Animals
Ta Matete
The Bathers, 1898
The Siesta
The Yellow Christ
Three Tahitian Women
Three Tahitians
Village in Tahiti
When Are You Getting Married?
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Women and a White Horse