Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin: Vase with Flowers

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), Les Alyscamps, Arles, 1888, oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm, Musée d'Orsay The Alyscamps at Arles

Paul Gauguin's Tahitian Landscape famous painting Floor Decals Paul Gauguin's Tahitian Landscape (1891) famous painting. Original from the Minneapolis Institute of Art

In the second of my posts this weekend to mark the big Paul Gauguin exhibition at Tate Modern, London, which ended today, I am looking at his most famous works from his time in Polynesia. Inspired by the writings of Pierre Loti, and after his brief artistic venture with Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin arrived in Tahiti in 1891 on an official mission for the French Government. His first two-year stay (1891 to 1893) was dedicated to the search that made it possible for him to later develope a new style…

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Two Tahitian Women (1899) by Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin | Self Portrait, Les Miserables,1888 Image:167112 Self Portrait, Les Miserables,1888 (oil on canvas). Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903). Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Art, Fine Art.

size: 12x9in Giclee Print: Landscape, 1901 by Paul Gauguin : Artists The son of a French journalist and Peruvian Creole, Paul Gauguin was raised in Lima. Working as a merchant navy man and eventually a successful Parisian stockbroker, when Gauguin discovered the Impressionist movement, it ignited his desire to become a painter. He became the proverbial starving artist to devote himself to his self-coined style of "Synthetism," which became a Post-Impressionistic style of modern art…

Paul Gauguin’s study of a Tahitian woman holding a fruit exemplifies the artist’s penchant for eroticizing Oceania.

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