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Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements. He was also an influential practitioner of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms. While only moderately successful during his lifetime, Gauguin has since been recognized for his experimental use of color and Syn…
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culture · French artist (1848–1903) · painter · sculptor · graphic artist · draftsperson · printmaker · ceramicist · illustrator · visual artist · also Paul Gauguin, Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin, Paul Gaugin, Eugene-Henri Gauguin, Kao-keng, Pablo Gauguin
Born 7 June 1848 · Died 9 May 1903 · Q37693
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“s subordinates. Picquenot investigated the allegations but could not substantiate them. Claverie responded by filing a charge against Gauguin of libeling a gendarme. He was subsequently fined 500 francs and sentenced to three months”
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“At night I am devoured by mosquitoes.”
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“[she] lives almost as do animals […] like she-cats, she bites when in heat and claws as if coition were painful. She asks to be raped. […] Giving her a good beating every week [makes her] obey a little. She thinks very poorly of the lover who does not beat her.”
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The painting Fruits on a Table (1889), with an estimated value of between €10m and €30m (£8
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Forensic examination of these teeth threw into question the conventional belief that Gauguin had suffered from syphilis
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Travel Weekly: Paul Gauguin to depart Regent Seven Seas fleet
Four rotten molars, which may have been Gauguin's, were found by archaeologists at the bottom of a well that he built on the island of Hiva Oa, on the Marquese Islands
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The Paul Gauguin Cultural Center opened in Atuona in the Marquesas Islands
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By Eric Walter Elst at the European Southern Observatory, was named in his honor
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At a railway lost property sale, for 45,000 lira (about £32)
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A bronze cast of his Oviri figure was placed on his grave, as he had indicated was his wish
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By the French journalist Josette Giraud and was an artist in his own right, his descendants still living in Tahiti as of 2001
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Could offer him no useful memory of Gauguin and chided him for visiting her without bringing money from Gauguin's family
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Was to stimulate Picasso's interest in both sculpture and ceramics, while the woodcuts would reinforce his interest in print-making, though it was the element of the primitive in all of them which most conditioned the di
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Died 1903-05-09.
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“Opis: komentarz na temat artysty autorstwa Antoniego Piotrowskiego.”
And an even larger one in 1906, had a stunning and powerful influence on the French avant-garde and in particular Pablo Picasso's paintings
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The manuscript of Noa Noa that Gauguin had prepared along with woodcuts during his interlude in France was finally published with Morice's poems in book form in the La Plume edition (the manuscript itself is now lodged i
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For 2,500 francs (about $10,000 in year 2000 US dollars) to Gabriel Frizeau, of which Vollard's commission was perhaps as much as 500 francs
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Started his radical experiment: oil transfer drawings
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In La Revue Blanche, while he himself had published extracts in Les Guêpes while he was editor
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Likely overlapping his Noa Noa woodcuts, perhaps even serving as a source of inspiration for them
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Where he garnered rare critical praise for his exceptional painterly and sculptural effects
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And it was a decided success, critics praising his new serenity
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After a two-year stay in Tahiti and must confront his wife, his children, and his former lover
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Gauguin's last physical contact with them was in 1891, and Mette eventually broke with him decisively in 1894.
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And Mette eventually broke with him decisively in 1894
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Gauguin went so far as to propose they form an artist studio in Antwerp
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Highlighted by a series of zincographs commissioned by Theo van Gogh known as the Volpini Suite, which also appeared in the Cafe des Arts show of 1889
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At Theo's instigation, Gauguin and Vincent spent nine weeks painting together at Vincent's Yellow House in Arles in the South of France
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Gauguin left France along with his friend, another young painter, Charles Laval
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After his wife and her family asked him to leave because he had renounced the values they shared
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By 1884, Gauguin had moved with his family to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he pursued a business career as a tarpaulin salesman.
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The stock market crashed and the art market contracted
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The Paris stock market crashed and the art market contracted
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And 1882 (earlier, a sculpture of his son Émile had been the only sculpture in the 4th Impressionist Exhibition of 1879)
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Was earning 30,000 francs a year (about $145,000 in 2019 US dollars) as a stockbroker, and as much again in his dealings in the art market
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Gauguin "moved downmarket and across the river to the poorer, newer, urban sprawls" of Vaugirard
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Around the time he became a stockbroker, Gauguin began painting in his free time
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Married a Danish woman, Mette-Sophie Gad (1850–1920)
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Gauguin returned to Paris where he secured a job as a stockbroker
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Gauguin's idyllic childhood ended abruptly when his family mentors fell from political power during Peruvian civil conflicts in 1854.
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Clovis Gauguin departed for Peru with his wife Aline and young children in hopes of continuing his journalistic career under the auspices of his wife's South American relations
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Gauguin's family settled in Peru, where he experienced a privileged childhood (until the age of six) that left a lasting impression on him
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Born 1848-06-07.
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Amidst the tumult of Europe's revolutionary year
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An active supporter of early socialist societies, Gauguin's maternal grandmother helped to lay the foundations for the 1848 revolutionary movements.
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