Paul Gauguin Prints
1848–1903 · French · Post-Impressionism / Symbolism
Wall art by Paul Gauguin, restored in-house and printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper.
15 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
About Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin was born in Paris in June 1848, spent part of his childhood in Peru, served in the merchant marine and from 1871 worked as a stockbroker, painting on Sundays. Camille Pissarro took him on as a pupil, and he showed with the Impressionists from 1879; after the stock-market crash of 1882 he gave up business for painting entirely. He worked in Brittany at Pont-Aven from 1886, visited Martinique in 1887, and in the autumn of 1888 spent nine weeks with Vincent van Gogh in Arles, a stay that ended in December with Van Gogh's breakdown. By then Gauguin had abandoned Impressionist observation for flat zones of strong colour bounded by dark outline, a manner he called Synthetism. In 1891 he sailed for Tahiti, returned to Paris in 1893, and went back to the Pacific in 1895 for good. The large canvas Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, painted in Tahiti in 1897 to 1898, was conceived as his testament. He died at Atuona in the Marquesas Islands in May 1903. Gauguin's saturated colour and simplified drawing fed directly into Matisse and the Fauves, and they are what make his pictures carry on a wall: orange sand, pink earth, a figure held in a single outline.