Art: Paul Gauguin

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetiststyle that were distinctly different from Impressionism. Towards the end of his life he spent ten years in French Polynesia where he married a 13-year old[1], and most of his paintings from this time depict people or landscapes from that region. Some of his artwork is shown here:

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1. Mahna no Varua Ino (The Devil Speaks)

Medium: woodcut printed in black and gray

Dated: 1894/1895

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2. Noa Noa (Fragrant, Fragrant)

Medium: woodcut printed in black and gray

Dated: 1894/1895

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3. Title Page for "Le Sourire" (Titre du Sourire)

Medium: woodcut printed in black and gray

Dated: 1895

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4. Mahana Atua (The Food of the Gods)

Medium: woodcut printed in black and gray

Dated: 1894/1895

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5. Nave Nave Fenua (Delightful Land)

Medium: woodcut printed in black and gray

Dated: 1894/1895

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6. Auti te Pape (Women at the River)

Medium: woodcut printed in black and gray

Dated: 1894/1895

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7. Manoa Tupapau (She is Haunted by a Spirit)

Medium: woodcut printed in black and gray

Dated: 1894/1895

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8. Te Po (The Long Night)

Medium: woodcut printed in black and gray

Dated: 1894/1895

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9. Maruru (Thank You)

Medium: woodcut printed in black and gray

Dated: 1894/1895

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10. The Universe is Created (L'Univers est cree)

Medium: woodcut printed in black and gray

Dated: 1894

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11. Still Life with Peonies

Medium: oil on canvas

Dated: 1884

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12. Self-Portrait Dedicated to Carrière

Medium: oil on canvas

Dated: 1888/1889

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13. Two Tahitians Gathering Fruit [verso]

Medium: graphite and blue colored pencil on wove paper

Dated: 1899/1900

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14. Breton Girls Dancing, Pont-Aven

Medium: oil on canvas

Dated: 1888

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15. Landscape at Le Pouldu

Medium: oil on canvas

Dated: 1890

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16. Te Pape Nave Nave (Delectable Waters)

Medium: oil on canvas

Dated: 1898

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17. Two Tahitians Gathering Fruit [recto]

Medium: traced monotype, printed twice, in brown and ocher on wove paper

Dated: 1899/1900

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18. A Breton Gleaner

Meidum: pastel with wetting on laid paper

Dated: 1886

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19. Human Sorrow (Miseres humaines)

Medium: woodcut on japan paper

Dated: 1895

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20. Five Studies of Heads; A Boy in Profile with Studies of Hands and Feet 

Medium: pen and brown ink and graphite on wove paper

Dated: 1884-1888

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21. Head of a Monkey; Inventory of Bottles and Beverages

Medium: graphite, crayon, and pen and brown ink on wove paper

Dated: 1884-1888

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22. Manao Tupapau (She is Haunted by a Spirit)

Medium: litograph (stone) in black

Dated: 1894

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Here are some interesting facts about Paul Gauguin:

1. He was a merchant marine and stockbroker before being an artist - Gauguin sailed around the world for six years, enlisting in the merchant marine when he was only 17.

2.  Gauguin collected paintings on his own, including the works of Claude Monet, Édouard Manet, Paul Cézanne and Camille Pissaro. In 1874, Gauguin had the chance to meet Pissaro, and the artist took it upon herself to teach Gauguin various techniques for drawing and painting. At this point Gauguin had already been a part of a social avant-garde circle, including Edouard Manet, Pierre Auguste-Renoir, and Edgar Degas.

3. Gauguin once sailed to the French Caribbean island of Martinique to “live like a savage”.
Left frustrated from his recent exhibition (with his works overshadowed by Georges Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grand Jatte – 1884), Gauguin moved away in an attempt to lead a simpler life, to a Brittany Region in France called Pont-Aven.

4. Some art historians claim that Guaguin had something to do with the mutilation of Van Gogh’s ear. The two artists had a volatile relationship. Notably, Van Gogh and Gauguin often argued with each other during their stay at Arles (located at the south of France), with the arguments mostly revolving around art’s true purpose. Two months later, their relationship took a dark turn, and while Gauguin claimed was an attack to him with a razor, Van Gogh had mutilated his own left ear.However, after extensive examination of police records and artists’ correspondence, art historians Kaufmann and Wildegans came to the conclusion that it was Gauguin who mutilated Van Gogh’s ear, and that he used a sword instead of a razor.

* If you wish to read more about the time Van Gogh and Gauguin lived together click here.

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Paul Gauguin Wearing a Breton Jacket, 1891. Source: Wikimedia Commons

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